Single-Seaters

The warnings had been fairly bleak. The circuit, we were told, wasn’t so much in the middle of nowhere as teetering on oblivion’s edge. Restaurants were few and far between……

Three-time Le Mans winner Allan McNish was in the office on Tuesday in order to be the guest editor for the January 2014 edition of the magazine. Despite relishing his…

The Korean GP is not the most popular race on the schedule with members of the F1 circus. First of all it's hard to get to, with the intrepid traveller's arrival in Seoul…

Grand Prix teams are braced for a tough 2014: a radical new formula to be played out over a record 22 races in a relentless campaign, much of it long-haul,…

Late to the party again, I have only just seen Ron Howard’s Hunt-Lauda biopic, Rush. I enjoyed it very much. Even so I walked out of the cinema rather puzzled.…

Taken from the November 1997 issue of Motor Sport Late in the afternoon of November 22 1963, I was stopped by a policeman and reprimanded for riding my bike at…

The second that Mark Webber, admittedly while stood at a well-lit street corner, accepted a lift in strange circumstances, I knew he would have to pay a price for his…

From what we hear from you readers our BBQ at the Hurlingham Club on September 18 went down very well, with classic cars on show, a silent auction and the…

'Kimi Rӓikkӧnen is back' and Kimi Rӓikkӧnen's back summed up much of the paddock conversation this weekend. The fact that the Finn could even take part in qualifying on Saturday…

It was approaching 1.30am as I walked from the paddock and threaded my way between scaffolding trucks and deconstruction staff on the long run between Turns Five and Seven. Little…

Mark Webber’s exploding engine apart, there were rather more fireworks after the Singapore Grand Prix than occurred during its course. As a lesson in race management, though, Sebastian Vettel’s third…

The question wasn’t so much who would be on pole, but by how much. Sebastian Vettel was six tenths clear of rivals after his first run during qualifying’s final phase,…

The organisation is thorough – and so is the security: bag and body checks at the main entrance to Marina Bay, then an airport-style scanner every time you enter the…

For a city that regards sleep as optional, Singapore seems quite somnolent at times. As a captive audience drifts from the Marina Bay racetrack on three nights a year, many…

Taken from the September 1997 issue of Motor Sport On July 17 1937, during practice for the German Grand Prix, Bernd Rosemeyer fought his wayward Auto Union around the Nürburgring…

Forty years ago next Monday, Jackie Stewart contested his 99th Grand Prix. A messy affair, it did not sit well with the neat, spring-heeled Scot. The inaugural Safety Car in…

It wasn’t a violent temper tantrum, more a petulant stamp. Fernando Alonso wasn’t expecting to win Formula 1’s inaugural night race, around the streets of Marina Bay, Singapore, but he’d…