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Did he lose the plot?
Le Mans was the movie Steve McQueen most wanted to make. The ultimate bloke’s bloke was mates with Jackie Stewart…
Le Mans was the movie Steve McQueen most wanted to make. The ultimate bloke’s bloke was mates with Jackie Stewart…
I have been lucky enough to track test a couple of Porsche 962s. The one you see pictured was Porsche’s…
Only on rare occasions was a 250 GTO entered by the works Ferrari team. They were most often run by…
"I don’t know,” answers Charles Leclerc to the question of whether he is a tiger or tactician, a Villeneuve or…
Photography Getty Images. Taken from Motor Sport, August 1962 Every five years the Grand Prix de l’ACF leaves the Reims circuit…
Jim Weeks The very basis of Ferrari’s reputation is competition. Indeed, Enzo Ferrari himself famously only built road-going examples of…
Sometimes you have an idea floating around in your head for days, weeks or even months, but in the case…
The English motor-racing scene suffers from a split personality just as the French one does, for whereas France alternates between…
Photography Getty Images Taken from Motor Sport, November 2013 Porsche had raced a couple of F2-based four-cylinder cars for Dan…
If you wanted success at Le Mans during the 1970s or 1980s, then the easiest way to get ahead at…
The future of Porsche in motor sport is something to behold. It has its Formula E programme and its works…
This prototype modern professional racing driver proved the efficacy of Britain’s blueprint for progression within a junior formulae structure. The…
Derek Bell recalls his unexpected friendship with Steve McQueen... “I’d only just started in sports cars, so I was pretty…
The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet…
The front wings curve and curl ahead of you, the monstrous V12 bellows and barks behind you. The revs keep…
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, OCTOBER 1970 One of the few attributes of the Le Mans 24 Hours race is that…
Each month for the past five years it’s been my privilege, on your behalf, to take a motor racing name…
When we speak of legendary partnerships in motor racing, perhaps the one that would spring first to most minds is…
In 1895, the Lumiére brothers presented projected moving pictures to a paying audience for the first time. In 1896, commercial…
This year the R.A.C. sold the rights of the British Grand Prix to the British Racing Drivers’ Club and they…
Two-time Formula 1 champion and 2018 Le Mans winner Fernando Alonso will return to McLaren for the post-Bahrain Grand Prix F1 test Fernando Alonso is to get back behind the wheel…
Joe Roberts may have missed the Moto2 podium in Qatar, but the MotoGP paddock’s latest American star – no relation to three-times 500cc world champion ‘King’ Kenny Roberts – started…
In just a few months the global Covid pandemic has taken grand prix racing back to where it was half a century ago. Now the paddock is what it used…
“So, I’m actually wearing a travel sickness band to see if that helps.” The Motor Sport editorial team is not known for its karting abilities at the best of times,…