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A Daytona to remember
Why was this race so important that its name was informally given to Ferrari’s next supercar and, 55 years later,…
Why was this race so important that its name was informally given to Ferrari’s next supercar and, 55 years later,…
Clark’s first race in a monoposto was dispiriting. The battery of his ill-handling Formula Junior Gemini was as flat as…
As the Grand Prix ‘circus’ converged on the Nürburgring through the Eifel mountains, Ferrari from Italy, Matra from France, Lotus,…
Whatever the 1923 Italian term was for, ‘On your bike, son,’ 25-year-old Enzo Ferrari surely uttered it as the carabiniere…
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The new motor-racing circuit at Aintree, near Liverpool, opened to a wet but successful International meeting organised by the BARC…
Greased Lightning (1977) This alleged biopic of African-American NASCAR racer Wendell Scott was nothing of the sort. While not a…
Anyone who lives beyond man’s natural span of “three score years and 10” has to be respected, and to live…
When the vastly more experienced Graham Hill was in negotiation to join him at Mecom Racing as a late replacement for…
GRAND PRIX Released 1966 Director John Frankenheimer Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stars James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, Antonio Sabato Gross $20.8m…
Photography Porsche Archives & Getty Images Taken from Motor Sport, April 1968 When the Porsche factory finally gave up production…
Taken from Motor Sport, May 2019 Paul Newman had a strange request at the 1995 Daytona 24 Hours. The Oscar-winning…
Cold, wet and a flat battery: Jim Clark’s Formula Junior debut at 1959’s Boxing Day Brands Hatch was short of…
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, AUGUST 2016 He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won…
His family’s BMW 328 – the finest 2-litre sports car of its pre-war generation – provided the stepping-off point in…
While the British teams gnashed their teeth over the regulation change, Ferrari made hay with Carlo Chiti’s V6 that had…
The annual race round the town circuit in Pau has had its ups and downs since its inception in 1933,…
The odd mix of inertia and razzmatazz of the Month of May at Indianapolis did not sit well with Clark…
It was a plot that would have been regarded as too fanciful, even for Hollywood. Any self-respecting studio would have…
The reigning world champion finds himself in a very deep hole. Can he dig himself out? I wonder where Jorge Lorenzo has been on holiday. I imagine him making a…
Honda says Marc Márquez is now fully fit having recovered from his double vision injury from 2021
The factory Ducati team has had a woeful start to 2022 but Gigi Dall’Igna or Pecco Bagnaia aren’t worried, because they’ve regained their 2021 feeling by reverting to GP21 settings. And some details on HRC’s troubles
Richard Heseltine recently travelled to Madrid, Spain to visit a 1980s Spanish hillclimb champion called Teo Martin. What he found there, in a spotless workshop, was a selection of the best-known…