America’s oldest long-distance sports car race takes place next Saturday at the old Sebring airfield circuit in central Florida. The Sebring 12 Hours was run for the first time in…
Last week Jacques Villeneuve announced he’s returning to race in this year’s Indianapolis 500 for the first time since winning the race 19 years ago. Villeneuve is 42 and has…
Dallara has in its 42 years surpassed Brabham, Lola, Lotus, March and Reynard as the greatest supplier of racing chassis. And with good reason: its products are damn good. That’s…
Rain caused a six-and-a-half hour delay to this year’s Daytona 500 but when the chequered flag finally waved at 11.30 on Sunday evening ‘NASCAR Nation’ couldn’t have been happier. That’s…
This week I’m going to explain why I believe Mark Donohue and the remarkable Can-Am turbo Porsche 917/30K deserve places in Motor Sport’s roll call of racing’s greatest drivers and…
Jacques Villeneuve contesting the new World Rallycross Championship is exciting news in itself, but making it historically sweeter and completing the circle is the fact that there will be a…
I have to say I was shocked when I read last week’s list of the sport’s greatest drivers. Missing from the list were three of America’s greatest racers of all-time…
A great deal of unhappiness and toxic comment has been aired on the web about the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. Many fans were displeased with the excessive, unnecessary use…
This year’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona was dominated by a fleet of Corvette Daytona Prototypes and eventually they scored a 1-2-3-4 sweep. The winners were João Barbosa/Sébastien Bourdais/Christian Fittipaldi…
A few weeks ago Paul Fearnley documented Colin Chapman’s last Formula 1 cars, including the twin-chassis Lotus 88. Chapman was renowned for pushing the limit and breaking new ground, which…
It wasn’t a single moment that caught my eye this year. It was watching a pair of relentless, season-long efforts by Jimmie Johnson and Scott Dixon and their teams on…
Playstation/Gran Turismo has linked up with Mario Andretti to recreate his first race car on the new game. OK, it's a publicity stunt, but the documentary is actually very good.…
In 1971, Jackie Stewart raced not only in Formula 1 for Ken Tyrrell but also for Carl Haas in the Can-Am series. In those days the McLaren team dominated the…
It’s probably happened before and since in motor racing somewhere around the world, but the most spectacular last to first performance I’ve ever witnessed took place on the Milwaukee Mile…
Our editor-in-chief’s archive post about Brian Redman last week was right in suggesting that Redman may be the most underrated racing driver of all time. I had the pleasure of…
Matt Kenseth gave a rousing try, qualifying on the pole for NASCAR’s season finale last weekend at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. He led most of the race and finished a fighting…
