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Three-time world champion, interviewed by the BBC He walked like a racing driver should walk, he talked like a racing driver, he looked like a racing driver and he set a standard that I think has been unmatched since he retired. I just think he was a

Early on Easter Sunday, motorsport lost one of its true giants. It’s often easy to get carried away when we lose famous figures, but in Sir Stirling Moss’s case it is no exaggeration to say that he was one of the greatest drivers of all time, not to

Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says his team is still uneasy about Racing Point’s ‘pink Mercedes’, with a challenge on its legality still not out of the question. Racing Point caused a stir in pre-season testing when it revealed an RP20 desig

Formula 1 is continuing to explore a number of options for a heavily revised 2020 calendar that could still feature as many as 19 races. As the impact of the COVID-19 crisis continues to impact global sport, F1 officials are working on contingencies

For a schoolboy in the 1950s, Stirling Moss was ‘Mr Motor Racing’. Once Juan Manuel Fangio had retired from full-time Formula 1 at the end of 1957, Stirling was the standard by which all drivers were judged in grand prix racing. In sportscars he had

Petter Solberg, the 2003 WRC champion, can’t keep away from the sport. He bowed out of his top-line driving career with WRC 2 victory on last year’s Rally GB (above), and now says his team is in discussions with two manufacturers for a programme in f

Six-time NASCAR Cup race winner Kyle Larson has been suspended indefinitely by stock car racing’s sanctioning body for the use of a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual racing event on Sunday night. Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet driver Larson w

Daniel Ricciardo and Lewis Hamilton have leant their support to the idea of modifying the Australian Grand Prix Albert Park circuit to increase overtaking chances. Australian Grand Prix Corporation CEO Andrew Westacott told Autosport earlier this yea

No official test day and an autumn date have resulted in a rejig of the timetable for the rescheduled Le Mans 24 Hours in September. More free practice is the big change for the Wednesday and Thursday. The revised schedule for what is now the penulti

A rival of Rene Arnoux and Patrick Tambay in Formula Renault, Alain Couderc has died at 72. Couderc held his own with the future Formula 1 stars in the European Formula Renault Championship in 1973 at the wheel of a Martini. He won six races and fini

Motorsport is in crisis due to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. What does FIA president Jean Todt think about it, and what are the governing body’s plans? It was time to ask… and, of course, to quiz him further about the biggest pre-season

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I was saddened to hear of the passing of my boyhood motor racing hero, Sir Stirling Moss. I was privileged to see him race in a variety of cars in the period 1959-62, when he was at the height of his powers. In a competitive and reliable car he was u

‘The greatest driver never to become world champion’ was a well-meaning epithet, but it damned him ever so slightly with faint praise. ‘The greatest all-rounder’ is more telling. Stirling Moss, who died on Sunday aged 90, could drive any car flat-out

McLaren factory driver Ben Barnicoat will race in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup with the new 2 Seas Motorsport McLaren team. Barnicoat (below) will be paired with the Anglo-Bahraini team’s co-owner Isa Al Khalifa – a graduate of Porsche on

JAGUAR XK120 (1ST) The Dundrod road circuit in Northern Ireland is fearsome, considered too fast for top-line car racing after three driver deaths in 1955. It is therefore perhaps understandable that Jaguar would not give the then-20-year-old Moss a

The words belong to Dan Cammish. His graduation from Porsche specialist to the British Touring Car Championship in 2018 in a plum seat with official Honda squad Team Dynamics wasn’t without its growing pains, but to come just a lap and a half short o

With a two-year deal at Team Dynamics ongoing alongside Matt Neal, Dan Cammish has had a relaxing winter. “It was the first time I’ve been able to sit back and not really take part in the silly season,” he says. “I knew exactly where I was going to b

Rick Mears surprised the world when he announced at Penske Racing’s Christmas party in Reading, Pennsylvania on 10 December that he was retiring from racing. “It was very tough to get the words out,” commented Mears. “I really had to struggle to say

Rick Mears is now believed to be the longest-serving employee at Team Penske, having started his career with the squad in 1978. From the moment Mears confided in Roger Penske at Road America in 1992 that he was aiming to quit at season’s end, The Cap

INDYCAR ESPORTS MICHIGAN (USA) 11 APRIL ROUND 3 Thanks to an expertly executed fuel strategy, 2016 IndyCar champion Simon Pagenaud claimed his maiden Esports win in the third round of the series’ iRacing Challenge at the virtual Michigan Internationa

Clubs have welcomed Motorsport UK’s decision to provide a £1million fund to support organisers during the difficulties posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The governing body last month announced that it was suspending all of its event permits until at

RACE FOR THE WORLD VARIOUS VENUES 11-16 APRIL Six Formula 1 names – Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, George Russell, Nicholas Latifi, Alexander Albon and Louis Deletraz – headlined a grid of drivers organising the Race for the World charity sim racing

Reigning Retro Rallycross champion Gary Simpson will honour Swedish ex-rallycross ace Bengt Ekstrom – father of DTM hero Mattias Ekstrom and a European Rallycross Championship frontrunner in his own right – with a special replica livery on his Divisi

Two more major historic race meetings have been cancelled or postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak, but organisers of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nurburgring are still pressing on with preparations for the early-August event. The biennial Le

MOTOGP ESPORTS RED BULL RING (AUT) 12 APRIL ROUND 2 Francesco Bagnaia beat Maverick Vinales in a chaotic second #StayAtHomeGP MotoGP Esports race around a virtual Red Bull Ring. Just as with the Mugello race, a five-minute qualifying preceded the 10-

McLaren factory driver Rob Bell has called on British GT organiser SRO to weigh up pitstop penalties for all-Silver pairings in GT3 this season instead of ballast. Pitstop penalties have been established for several years in GT4 as a means of balanci

Tributes have been paid to popular assistant ST-XR Challenge coordinator Ken Mellor, who died last week. Mellor (right) first began his long association with the championship back in the 1980s when his son Sean raced an XR2, and later joined him in c

The first round of the Virtual Fun Cup Series took place last Sunday, with drivers competing in a one-hour race at Oulton Park, which was won by Richard Towler. Elsewhere, the calendar for the long-running TORA British GT Esports Championship will fe

Colin McRae’s revered World Rally Championship title-winning Subaru Impreza and British Touring Car Championship driver Aiden Moffat will both be part of the inaugural DRIVE Festival, due to take place in August this year. Held at the Borders Event C

ESPORTS INVITATIONAL LIVESTREAM ON MOTORSPORT.TV Following the lead of Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR Cup and MotoGP, the World Rallycross Championship is the latest major motorsport series to replace its postponed real-life season with a virtual alterna

Nicklas Nielsen raced against Charles Leclerc in his karting days. Their career paths veered in different directions thereafter, but the Dane has now joined his former sparring partner on the books at Ferrari. Nielsen was added to the roster of Ferra

Finnish fans try to avoid a faceful of gravel delivered by home hero Juha Kankkunen’s Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD during the 1993 1000 Lakes Rally. Kankkunen was on dazzling form, leading the event for all but one of the 35 stages, when Ari Vatanen (Suba

The angle adopted by the Gijs van Lennep/Herbert Muller Martini Racing Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo gives a graphic demonstration of what happens when tractive power meets a bend in the road, here during the 1974 Le Mans 24 Hours. Matra had been pre

When the last edition of the National racing supplement went to press, there were no restrictions on motorsport in the UK. A month on and the coronavirus pandemic has escalated significantly and there is no prospect of motorsport taking place in this

Compared to Caterham’s other C four categories, the 420R series is that little bit different. When rising up the Caterham ladder, you can use the same car as you progress through the different series, just making the necessary modifications here and

While the Citroen C1 Cup (see right) is a clear sign the SMRC is embracing a new form of racing, the long-standing Classics championship is indicative of the regard in which the tradition of the club is held. As with most Classics championships, part

By far the most popular championship in terms of entry numbers over the past five years, the Mini Cooper Cup has generated much greater significance due to its tangible career ladder to the British Touring Car Championship. Testament to the SMRC cate

Thirty-four. That’s how many cars on average took part in Toyota MR2 Championship rounds last season. The series is up there with the best-subscribed championships in the UK. But despite the close nature of the 750 Motor Club-run series, one man has

Choosing one stand-out race meeting from more than half a century of motorsport is no easy task. By a rough count, I’ve been to about 1500 race meetings, watched over 200,000 races and spent around 2500 days at motorsport events across all discipline

“What we’ve always tried to do along the way is to make Hillspeed the team and the operation that we would select to drive for if we had our time again, in terms of how the cars are maintained, how the cars are presented and all aspects of how the bu

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Virtual racing it may have been, but the panel-bashing action and close finishes in the Scottish Motor Racing Club’s second Esports championship round at Oulton Park last weekend certainly made it look like the real thing. Real-life racer Michael Wed

This year the Scottish Motor Racing Club is 70 years old and, while the outbreak of COVID-19 has delayed the on-track celebrations until at least July, there is still much to shout about for a club with as many ups and downs as its permanent venue Kn

In the very first race for new constructor March, Ronnie Peterson (#2) steals an, ahem, march at the start of heat one for the Formula 3 event at Cadwell Park on 28 September 1969. Poleman Tim Schenken (#1, Brabham BT28) and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud (#7,