Justin Wilson: before America
It’s business as usual at Motor Sport this week. The new issue has gone on sale, featuring a warm appreciation of our cover star Stefan Bellof by those who knew…
We've dug out and digitised Rob Widdows' old tapes from when he presented a show called Track Torque on Radio Victory in the late 1970s and early '80s. The first…
The ‘silly season’ has been intrinsic to Formula 1 since Job was a boy, and traditionally goes on and on. Occasionally we get a year where no major contracts are…
The sports car category for the 2016 Hall of Fame is now open and, like we did for the Formula 1 category, we sat down and came up with a…
“Can any ex-military please stand up! Ladies and gentlemen, give these guys and gals a cheer – they put their lives on the line for you!” We’re not at Silverstone, that…
Justin Wilson was in a great mood this year after Michael Andretti took him on-board without any sponsorship as part of his multi-car IndyCar team. Justin started half a dozen…
There are occasions when, even before you ask a driver a question, you know the answer you’ll get. You can almost go through it word for word, with the facial…
Buy a Land Rover Defender and you’ll have all the fun you can handle in the off-road environment. Buy a Caterham Seven and you’ll have much the same sort of…
On Monday night Justin Wilson succumbed to the injuries he sustained at Pocono on Sunday. The 37-year-old IndyCar driver was hit in the head by debris from Sage Karam's accident…
Ex-Formula 1 team principal Guy Ligier died on Sunday at the age of 85. An accomplished sportsman and racing driver in his own right, Ligier bought the assets of the…
Last week we took a close look inside Graham Rahal’s unexpected pursuit of this year’s IndyCar championship. This week we complete our peek at how Rahal/Letterman/Lanigan’s one-car team has been…
Main image: a pre-race event in Brno, but perhaps not the one the weekend deserved At Brno I asked Dorna if they would arrange a minute’s silence on the MotoGP…
Honda’s motor sport chief Yasuhisa Arai went into F1’s summer break shooting from the hip and sounding very gung-ho about the progress he expects from the ‘Phase 3’ version of…
For some time now I have wondered whether, given enough exposure and shared adventure, any car could crawl its way into your affections however unlovely upon first acquaintance it might…
It’s fair to say I was a little frustrated after round seven of the United SportsCar Championship – it just felt like another race of ‘what ifs’. The Friday at…
After five or six years in the wilderness, Graham Rahal has come on strong this summer and with only two races to go he’s suddenly threatening to steal the IndyCar…
Emerson Fittipaldi & Nigel Mansell They were champions with something to prove when they first stepped into an Indycar. Emerson Fittipaldi – born on the 12th of the 12th, 1946…