Brooks: one of the greatest talents
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the September 2003 issue of Motor…
Like all the best awards ceremonies I’ll air my runner-up highlight first: fighting off the BBC to get time with David Coulthard. We knew things would be tight when we…
In his top 10 Formula 1 drivers of 2013, published in our February issue season review, Nigel Roebuck places Kimi Räikkönen fourth behind the obvious choices of Sebastian Vettel and…
The anticipation helped. It always does. Two qualifying sessions postponed until Sunday morning because of rain didn’t do any harm either. Revved up! The armies masquerading as Formula 1 teams…
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1999 issue of Motor…
If I knew that neither deputy editor Gordon Cruickshank nor features editor Simon Arron would read this, I’d probably opt for my one and only win in the 2013 Piaggio…
Sepang, October 1999. Somewhat against his will – for he had little enthusiasm for helping another Ferrari driver to win the world championship – Michael Schumacher, fully recovered from the…
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman died 31 years ago this week. He was 54. Peter Warr and Colin Chapman, 1982 He looked older. The toll exacted by a hectic life of…
The podcast team travelled up to Williams' Grove base for the last recording of the year and chatted to the great Frank Williams. He was on fine form and talked…
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the November 2010 issue of Motor…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Has that line been used somewhere before? This wasn’t so much a tale of two cities, though, as…
Bruce McLaren shouldn’t have been there. Masten Gregory should. Cooper team leader Jack Brabham reckoned the latter the most fearless man he met. Yet even the gung-ho ‘Kansas City Flash’…
Finding myself sitting next to Martin Brundle at an awards ceremony on Sunday, I asked him for his thoughts on F1 in 2014. “From what I’m hearing, I think it…
Formula 1 fans have been lucky over the last few seasons – the championship has gone down to the last race more often than not with Alonso and Vettel fighting…
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1953 issue of Motor…
In honour of the late Ken Gregory, here's an article we published in the October 2009 issue of Motor Sport. Stirling Moss: “It’s often been said that I was the…
Think of a number. Go on, Formula 1 is. Next Monday the good burghers of its Strategy Group will for a second time within a few months discuss a proposal…