Murray Walker is a national treasure. For a quarter of a century his unmistakable voice brought Formula 1 into millions of homes: it could be said that he replaced roast…

I’m always fascinated by what racing drivers do with themselves when they hang up their helmets. For some, their cockpit careers are the high point of their lives: afterwards, the…

The Grovewood Awards and their successors have always recognised young talent, but they can't foretell the future When circuit boss John Webb dreamed up the Grovewood Awards in 1963, his…

Formula One's ban on all testing until January has given the off-season a different look. No race this year to be the first team to clock up a hesitant handful…

It was like bumping into an old flame. Forty years ago, in our distant youth, we'd shared just one dance. In the intervening decades we'd both moved on; inevitably, we…

SIMON TAYLOR I KNOW WE'RE AU, FED UP wrai MICHAEL Schumacher monotonously winning Fl races: but it's still quite something that he tied up the title after barely 2000 of…

Sweltering in 34-degree Hockenheim heat during the German Grand Prix, I was amused to hear expressions of dismay about the plans to shorten F1's second-longest track into something more conventional,…

Understanding the FIA's new authenticity rules, which will allow replicas to race with period cars but aim for transparency In historic motorsport nothing is so contentious as the matter of…

Published in June 2006 FIA president Max Mosley works out of a small office in Monte Carlo, his balcony overlooking the blue Mediterranean. The phone rings incessantly: direct-line calls from…

Roy Salvadori, who has died shortly after his 90th birthday, was maybe the 1950s’ busiest racing driver. Talented and versatile, he combined a strong work ethic with an indomitable will…

It has taken an ex-Formula 1 driver with a hard business head to turn four well-loved British race tracks back to profit, as Simon Taylor finds out Photography: James Mitchell…