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The most-famous ice-racing championship, the Andros Trophy, has begun its final campaign after 35 editions. Known for attracting some of motor sport’s biggest names to try door-to-door ice racing aboard highpowered four-wheel-drive superminis, the An

Sometimes you miss being on the road and being part of the old gang. That certainly appears to be the case as far as Mario Andretti is concerned. In a wideranging Motor Sport interview available as a podcast via our website and YouTube channel, the 8

If you thought the four Dakar events to have run in Saudi Arabia seemed tough, this year’s fifth edition in the desert kingdom aims to take things to a whole new level. Since the rally raid event moved to Saudi in 2020, it has evolved with every runn

The old saying goes that everything is bigger in Texas, and American constructor Hennessey is taking that literally by aiming to propel its new Venom F5 machine to become the first production car to officially record a top speed over 300mph. Sounds a

The evenings may have been drawing in, but the new Motoring Literary & Art Festival, hosted by Porter Press in early December, confirmed there’s still plenty of mileage in events across the winter. Held at Silverstone, the festival showcased all that

British automotive adventurer Ben Coombs has begun his latest borderhopping expedition – celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Mini Cooper by driving a Mini 1000 to an unprecedented 6000m (19,685ft) above sea level. Coombs, from Devon, has form in

If you’re in need of a winter warmer early in the New Year, the latest movie adaptation of a motoring rivalry is due to land early in January in the form of rallying film Race for Glory: Audi vs Lancia. The film focuses on the legendary Group B batt

Considering that some still regard it as a bit of a mongrel, Italy’s Iso Grifo has a pretty impressive pedigree. Its sleek, grand-tourer bodywork was penned by Giorgetto Giugiaro (whose CV also includes the Lotus Esprit and the Volkswagen Golf ); its

Listening to Adrian Newey talk about the latest world championship-winning car with which he’s been associated (his 16th, encompassing three different teams), he points out that the foundation for any sequence of success he has enjoyed has always bee

Many MotoGP fans were dubious about Marc Márquez’s switch from factory Honda rider to independent-team Ducati rider for 2024. The sixtimes MotoGP king hasn’t won the title since 2019, struggling through the last four seasons with a right-arm injury s

I have just unearthed a part-forgotten 60-year-old Ford GT file covering the original development programme of 1963-64. The basics are familiar. America’s Ford Motor Company had been rebuffed in its 1962-63 attempt to take over Ferrari, so launched i

There are plenty saying the 2024 Formula 1 season is a foregone conclusion. They point to recent periods of power by Mercedes, Red Bull and back to Ferrari which won respectively eight, four and six constructors’ titles on the trot in their dominant

This is the most important new Volvo in years. Decades possibly.At least to Volvo. The EX30 is Volvo’s first crack at the compact crossover EV market, a sector that is likely to come to dominate the sales charts in years to come. More importantly sti

It is possible you’ve never heard of BYD, let alone the Seal, the third of three curiously titled cars to be put on sale here – the others being the Dolphin and Atto 3. So here’s what you need to know: BYD – Build Your Dreams – is not some new start-

There are some amazing statistics in the spec of this car: a 2-litre engine producing 416bhp, a sub- 4sec 0-62mph time and a 168mph top speed to name but three. But all pale beside the big one: this is a hot hatchback that costs £63,285. Put another

The 2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button is due to make his debut in the 2024 Daytona 24 Hours driving for Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti. The Brit has a reasonable amount of experience in endurance racing, notably driving for the Garage 56 progra

Planning a book covering this significant century can’t have been easy, but this quadrupleauthored book takes a bold approach, dividing into multiple short sections livened by bold graphics and diagrams. Visually dull it isn’t. You’d expect sections

Jimmy Vasser has been making headlines in American motor racing for more than 30 years and today he remains in the winner’s circle with his Lexus GT3 team in the IMSA sports car series. As a teenager he won America’s Formula Ford championship, gradua

A Ferrari Dino! My father was a Ferrari dealer in Guernsey and I still remember the day when he came home from work in this beautiful Dino. It was Ferrari red with cream upholstery and I just fell in love with that car. A Suzuki jeep SJ410 but I soon

The Monte Carlo Rally caught my imagination in 1956 when Ronnie Adams hefted a Jaguar Mark VII (manual, no overdrive or power steering) from Glasgow to Monaco, the textile manufacturer from Northern Ireland accompanied by two co-drivers. The fever re

I find it interesting that Max Verstappen was quoted in various media outlets as not being enthusiastic about the promotional hype surrounding the recent grand prix in Las Vegas. Be careful what you wish for, Max. Like it or not, Liberty Media is a c

Ask Gerhard Berger when he was happiest in his career as a racing driver and he’ll talk about 1987, his first year at Ferrari, when the car was quick and after a race the Old Man would take him to lunch at the Cavallino, across the road from the fact

When Marino Franchitti jumped on a call with Michael Mann, the director of Ferrari, the Scot thought that any potential role he might have in the making of the movie would be limited to a bit of driving. What he hadn’t expected was for Mann to pitch

The release of Ferrari this month is the culmination of an odyssey that spans 30 years for director and Hollywood big-hitter Michael Mann. The film-maker was in his fifties when he and his friend, fellow auteur Sydney Pollack, first started work with

The Ferrari team received notification of only the first three positions at the Ravenna control, so that they did not realise that their only rivals were already out. The reactions to this monopoly were interesting, for Wolfgang von Trips eased up, P

Given that the championship had been wrapped up almost two months earlier, there was little tension around the Abu Dhabi season finale. But there was a second place in the constructors’ championship to be decided between Mercedes and Ferrari. They ar

I know some people, myself included, would say the season was boring and predictable. But you have to give Red Bull credit, and the way Max Verstappen went about his season was something very special. Every time he gets in the car he’s on it, like al

The Organ of Motor and Motor Cycle Sport. That was this magazine’s subtitle at its inception, when it began life a century ago in July 1924. Above that phrase the actual masthead said The Brooklands Gazette. At the time virtually all high-profile mot

1924-2024 IN ASSOCIATION WITH RICHARD MILLE Even the name is mighty – Speed Six. Perhaps it’s the glamour of those wild-living, free-spending ‘Bentley Boys’ who raced them, or maybe our devotion to Le Mans that gives a 1920s Bentley such resonance o

Looking out towards Hong Kong’s famous Victoria Bay, a cloud suddenly appears. Is it mist coming in off the water, a depression bringing in one of the peninsula’s well-known volatile weather fronts? Ah no, it’s just dust off the aggregate. It is Nove

Having lifted a breakthrough IndyCar title during his first full season back in 2021, how much better could Alex Palou get? A lot, so it turned out, as the 26-year-old Spaniard rampaged his way to a second championship this season aboard his Honda-po

Sat in a dusty cupboard in the bowels of the Royal Automobile Club, leafing through ancient volumes of The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling, the name jumped right out at me. How could it not? Mr Eric Crudgington Fernihough Esq. And the faded photos on y

Ishan’t forget the first time I clapped eyes on Aston Martin’s V8 Vantage in its 2005 launch year. It was at the Gaydon HQ and I was admiring one of the first production cars in the entrance atrium while awaiting the arrival of Aston’s eccentric but

If prices for fast Fords can hit six-figures, why shouldn’t it be the same for (very) fast Vauxhalls? This well-preserved Lotus Carlton shows that some collectors will pay whatever it takes to own the best of anything, and the completely original, 17

Fans of motor racing art, artefacts and ephemera will find a huge range, including these collectibles, at the Motor Sport shop – motorsportmagazine.com/shop He may be one of the newer names on the motor sport art scene, but James Stevens’ star is on

And so we approach the tail-end of the season. Unlike circuit racing, late autumn still had two more trials to tackle, even if they would be the last trials until the new year. First up was the Lakeland Trial in Cumbria, which brought a different kin

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A major milestone for Ferrari came in 1951 when Argentinian racer José Froilán González gave Maranello a first Formula 1 world championship victory, at Silverstone, driving a Ferrari 375. Here is the Scuderia’s workshop two months before the start of