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Our thirst for live motor sport shows no sign of abating. This summer I have been struck by the sheer scale and popularity of some of the headline events I have been to. They have moved from niche interest gatherings to truly mainstream juggernauts c

The 2024 Le Mans Hypercar grid was made complete as Lamborghini became the last brand to show off its new design during the Goodwood Festival of Speed. With French brand Alpine pulling the covers off its new A424, inset right, during the centenary Le

Lia Block, teenage daughter of the late stunt and rally driver Ken Block, has relished her first taste of racing in the electric-powered Extreme E off-road series. The American has joined Timo Scheider in Carl Cox Motorsport’s Odyssey 21 and made her

Lewis Hamilton reckons the forthcoming Formula 1 movie starring Brad Pitt could have an even bigger impact on grand prix racing than Netflix’s divisive Drive to Survive series. Filming for the as-yet untitled film began during the British Grand Prix

Valentino Rossi celebrated an emotional maiden outright race victory in a GT3 car when he and team-mate Maxime Martin triumphed in race two of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup at Misano. Having secured his maiden podium at Brands Hatch, Rossi

RM 65-01 Skeletonised automatic winding calibre 60-hour power reserve (±10%) Baseplate and bridges in grade 5 titanium Split-seconds chronograph Function selector and rapid winding mechanism Variable-geometry rotor Case in 5N red gold and Carbon TPT

With more than 800 cars in action and a crowd that topped 235,000, this year’s Le Mans Classic has gone down as the biggest historic race meeting ever. Running in the shadow of the centenary edition of the modern-day Le Mans 24 Hours, the Classic pro

Anew supercar for the road claims to have its roots in both Formula 1 and Can-Am. Petersfield-based Nichols Cars, co-founded by renowned McLaren F1 engineer and designer Steve Nichols, has revealed its N1A. The man who worked with both John Barnard a

Tyrrell has featured within these pages quite a lot recently following the nowsettled saga over the fate of its famous shed, but more recently Ken Tyrrell’s worldbeaters had another matter to celebrate. To coincide with the release of Richard Jenkins

What? £200,000 for a Ford Capri!” we hear you cry. Yes, that really is the pre-sale estimate. But the guide price is for a brace of the Blue Oval’s grooviest British coupés, not just for one – and they come with the added bonus of having been immorta

Formula 1 and the FIA have together got themselves into a potentially sticky situation regarding additional new teams. It will be recalled that FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem opened up the tendering process for potential new teams a couple of yea

Many people in the MotoGP paddock – including rightsholder Dorna – are worried that the last remaining, embattled Japanese factories will quit the championship. Merely thinking this a few years ago would have been ridiculous, but not any more. Suzuki

It’s incredibly irritating when asked to identify a racing car in an ageing photo, but try as you might the brain cells just will not retrieve the information. Recently I found myself precisely in this situation during a regular Zoom gettogether with

Since we last met I’ve had the privilege of racing in the Le Mans Classic, driving for Bentley in its own continuation supercharged ‘Blower’, a facsimile recreation of the car Sir Henry Birkin raced here in 1930. There are those who get unbelievably

30 Race report The trials and tribulations of racing for Red Bull when your name is not Max Verstappen 40 Word on the beat Hamilton’s ‘emotional’ contract, a new name for Alpha Tauri, rain guards in F1 36 Tactical analysis Why the Ferraris proved

There were a total of 1200 possible track limit breaches during the Austrian Grand Prix. They were occurring faster than race control could keep up with and although several penalties were applied either in the race or immediately afterwards, after s

Ferrari got itself into an awkward interference pattern with the strategies of its two cars in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Partly this came about through the experimental tyre allocation for this race, introduced as part of the joint sustainability dri

Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’. Stroll actually managed to fend off his mentor/minder Alonso in the Austria sprint – rare 2023 bright spot f

F1 seemingly used to have a select yet steady flow of drivers like René Arnoux on tap – charisma-bottled with talent to spare, but a potential never fully realised. A dual personality defined the Frenchman, who took his final GP win 40 years ago this

There were pleasing aspects to the British Grand Prix. One was Alexander Albon’s drive to eighth for Williams. I saw Alex as he was leaving the circuit on the Sunday night and he said how easy the car is to drive. You can chuck it around like a kart,

Mark my words, this may look like a merely thoroughly face-lifted DB11, but the new DB12 is likely to be considered one of the more important cars in the history of Aston Martin. These come along every so often, vehicles that are meant to reset the d

There is always an opportunity to be had when a model line reaches its conclusion. Take a small number from the end of production, add a spoiler here, a wing there, a spot of chintz perhaps, tell the world it’s a limited edition, limit that number to

After recently being thoroughly surprised in an entirely positive way by the Maserati Grecale [Sometimes less is so much more, August], I approach the Alfa Tonale, another Italian SUV from the same Stellantis stable, with hope soaring in my heart. It

Since leaving his job as head designer for Morgan in 2012, 40-year-old Matthew Humphries has juggled his life between freelance work, lecturing, finding time to drive the beloved MGB he bought 18 years ago – oh, and running his own watch brand. He fo

Goodwood is providing a spectacular rendezvous to end summer with a bang, as thousands join to celebrate the annual Revival. From celebrity faces, to vintage attires, and historic race meetings, it’s an event that never fails to impress. It will be a

How many people first competed in an MG? Until diluted to a mere badge, these unassuming machines based on common mechanicals were a reliable way into many competitive car pleasures. Here is the man who made it happen – Cecil Kimber, known as ‘Kim’,

For Flux Sake: an open goal, that title, especially as his visor strip said the same thing (best mate Tiff Needell’s doing), but it’s a flavour of the way Ian Flux treats life. And he has stuff to reveal that you’ve never read in a driver’s memoir be

Riccardo Patrese, World Kart Champion in 1974, graduated rapidly through the lower formulae, propelled by passionate ambition and bags of natural talent. He took his place on the grand prix grid, with Shadow in Monaco, just three years later and spen

The first family car I remember was my Father’s DeSoto in the 1940s, an American car. In the war years they had a bag tank on the roof, running on gas, but I wasn’t interested in cars as a small child, that came later when we moved to Melbourne when

Harvey Postlethwaite, captured in the Hungaroring car park early on race day in 1988. After seven years with Ferrari, Harvey had become technical director at Tyrrell; the equivalent today of switching from Mercedes to Williams. As can be seen from th

In F1 Retro, August 2023, page 33, Peter Revson is referred as “the heir to the Revlon cosmetics fortune”. This is a statement repeated during Revson’s entire racing career by the media, but was never correct. While he was a Revson, Peter’s father sp

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Bespectacled and spectacular, a precocious talent unfulfilled in F1 Signed by Porsche when just 22 in 1966, he finished second consecutively at the Nürburgring 1000Kms from 1968, in works 907 and 908/2, and also for Alfa Romeo at the Oil Crisis-hit

Took four N24 wins in five years in Manthey Porsches between 2007 and ’11, but it’s the stunning lap record he achieved in the electricpowered Volkswagen ID R that made Dumas a modern king of the ’Ring. 6min 05.336sec? Woosh! Fiery German who won the

Thank the automotive gods for the Nürburgring. Since its creation in 1927, the rollercoaster through the verdant Eifel forests has been considered the ultimate test, and it still is today. Hence the steady drip of car manufacturer record attempts tha

I’d been watching him in 2020, he looked pretty handy, doing a good job in his first season, and when we did the first test with him at Laguna Seca ahead of the 2021 season we thought ‘this guy is really good’. That’s when we called Chip and told him

Thirty minutes in a kart is usually enough to leave most drivers feeling physically battered, so when my next-door neighbour William mentioned he was taking part in a 24-hour race featuring multiple 90-minute stints, I thought he was mad. But a few w

Notable by its up-front cockpit, Xavier Kingsland’s Staride unusually boasts a central fuel tank. After finding the much-modified car in the US he returned it to original spec, including its swing-axle rear suspension and original Manx. Prices of 500

One benefit of buying this twinwinged Brabham BT23C is that you’ll always have somewhere to put your tea – but you’ll also be getting one of the most historically interesting of Jack Brabham’s late ’60s F2 racers ever to take to the track. The Austra

SOLD BY ARTCURIAL, £76,720 The superb condition of this Discovery belied that it was one of the 20 examples built for, and used in, the 1997 Camel Trophy which took place in deepest Mongolia. Campaigned by a Spanish team and then stored for a decade,

Motor Sport collection ALL PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT MOTORSPORTMAGAZINE.COM/SHOP The funny thing about racing posters is that at the time of their production, they’re everywhere and worth very little, but give it a few years (and a few squiggles) and no

CadwellPark, dubbed by many as the ‘mini Nürburgring’, is one of my favourite circuits. Sadly, I missed out last year with a broken Mord, so I was even more excited to get out on track this time around. First of all, getting there was quite the adven

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Is Ferrari driver Luigi Villoresi thinking through his strategy before the start of the British Grand Prix? Villoresi is in notable company. Ferrari team manager Nello ‘Maestro’ Ugolini is studying a watch and chart. In 1957 he’d switch to Maserati a

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