Jimmie Johnson wins Daytona 500
Any thoughts that five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson might be past his prime were dispelled at Daytona on Sunday as Johnson drove a typically smart race to score his second…
We’re just two weeks from press day for the Geneva Motorshow, the single most important annual event in the diary of most motoring journalists, the one even those with an…
The least surprising news to emanate from the sport of motor racing in recent weeks is the fact that there are a number of Grand Prix teams going into a…
NASCAR’s long season kicks off next Sunday with the 55th running of the Daytona 500. Practice and qualifying started last weekend and continue this week with a pair of 150-mile…
Can’t beat a snow rally for picturesque dramatic action. Stunning stuff. Even those of my friends who think motor sport the work of the Devil are (very briefly) impressed by…
The question is: are CRT bikes too slow? It depends on your viewpoint. If you are Jorge Lorenzo, under pressure from Dani Pedrosa as you come upon a backmarker at…
I must be getting old: I am starting to think it’s possible for road cars to have too much power. I can remember suggesting as much to Gordon Murray when…
Master fabricator Phil Remington passed away over the weekend at his home in California. Remington was renowned as one of the finest fabricators the sport has ever seen. He worked…
The first test session of the F1 season always sees a flurry of excitement, and Jerez this week was no different. Four 2013 cars were unveiled to the media for…
In an homage to the Gulf collection that graces the cover of the March issue of Motor Sport, reader Maarten Vogels has recreated the photo shoot with model cars. If…
From pneumatic tyres to double DRS via drilled throttle pedals, knock-off hubs, turbocharging, sliding skirts, X-wings, carbon monocoques, blown diffusers and mass dampers, motor racing is rarely short of buzz…
While in Daytona recently for the Rolex 24 sports car race, I sat down for an hour or so with Anthony Davidson to talk through prospects for the forthcoming Formula…
The final two installments of Ford Brasil's series of promotional films are here. Finally we get to see Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet on track together, in the same cars,…
I grew up in a household where adding the prefix ‘Persil’ was the only way to turn ‘automatic’ into a less than dirty word. We didn’t simply not care for…
The New York media are renowned for their lack of interest, if not outright disdain for motor sport. NASCAR is covered sporadically at best by New York’s newspapers and a…
Cast back your mind a few decades, to bygone Formula 1 launches. The weekly press would carry photographs of such events, specialised occasions whose attendance could be measured in tens…
For the March issue of Motor Sport, Nigel Roebuck came up with a vision of 'how the schedule might look if it were driven by sport rather than commerce.' Take…