Motor Sport Podcast
Podcast: Martin Brundle inducted into Hall of Fame
Martin Brundle is one of this year's inductees to the Motor Sport Hall of Fame and joins us in our final podcast of 2020 to look back
Single-Seaters
See all the latest news across the single-seater racing spectrum. From Formula 1 to FIA Formula E, karting news and electric single-seater racing.
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Word on the beat, February 2021
The McLaren team has raised $185m new capital by selling an initial 15 per cent share to MSP Sports Capital, a consortium of American sports investors. This stake is set…
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Why does Abu Dhabi create dull races?
The season finale was the least interesting race of the year, with Verstappen, Bottas and Hamilton holding their grid places throughout. F1 has been coming here since 2009 and every…
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Russell's rapid rise and fall: 2020 F1 season draws to a close
George Russell travelled to the season-ending Middle East triple-header more in hope than in expectation. Williams had provided him with a better car in his 2020 sophomore season than it…
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Doug Nye: F1 fires have so often ended tragically
The year 2020 will generally be remembered with horror. However, for those following Formula 1 it was nearly even worse. Romain Grosjean’s light injuries after his fiery Bahrain GP crash…
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Mark Hughes: Grosjean's Bahrain crash was most terrifying F1 moment for 40 years
You may have read our interview with Romain Grosjean in last month’s issue as he reflected on approaching the last three races of his F1 career. If he but knew…
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Details Matter. Toleman TG280 oil warning light
IN THE SPIRIT OF BOD AND JENKS Editorial +44 (0) 20 7349 8484 [email protected] 18-20 Rosemont Road, London NW3 6NE, UK Editor Joe Dunn Editors-at-Large Gordon Cruickshank & Simon Arron…
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Band of Brothers: Toleman's dominant F2 campaign
July 1979, the first corner at Enna, Sicily: my life as a freelance reporter covering the European Formula 2 Championship was about to take a different turn – much like…
F1
MPH: How much of Lewis Hamilton's success is down to his car?
One of the biggest talking points of an F1 season in which Lewis Hamilton broke the all-time career stat records previously held by Michael Schumacher has been just how big…
F1
Hamilton: ‘I would win championships and races, and wonder what does it all mean?’
Lewis Hamilton has said the "short-lived" happiness of winning forced him to ask how he would use his success, in a Boxing Day episode of the Today programme that he guest-edited
F1
F1's Home Win Legends: countdown of heroic drives and historic victories
A race victory is already a glorious occasion but when that win comes on home soil, there's an added feeling of triumph that goes with it. Whether the win was…
F1
F1 can't punish Mazepin while paddock remains sleazy
Fans and people in motor sport are right to be outraged that nothing seems to have been done after an F1 driver posted a video of him groping a woman.…
F1
Martin Donnelly's life-saving headphones: unseen advance in helmet safety
James Penrose has been at the forefront of technical innovations in F1 crash helmet design since the late '80s. First involved with Lotus at Arai, his innovations may just have…
Books
Skid Solo: The world's greatest racing driver — on paper
Dad – a Vintage Sports-Car Club regular in our everyday chain-drive Frazer Nash – was my first motorsporting hero. My second was a square-jawed multiple Formula 1 world champion called…
F1
Mario Andretti: 'I borrowed Rutherford's helmet. It's the only time it won on a road course!'
Mario Andretti leapt from IndyCar to NASCAR and Formula 1 to sports cars with style and apparent ease, winning wherever he went during a five-decade long career that witnessed huge…
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Friends reunited: Derek Warwick & Brian Henton's 1980 F2 title-winning Tolemans
Before we go back to the history, can we start with what it was like to drive the Toleman TG280 again after 40 years? Derek Warwick, Toleman team driver:…
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Bernie Ecclestone: from building F1 to its future — The Motor Sport Interview
Bernie Ecclestone is one of the world’s great deal makers. He loves them and has done some very good ones, both for himself and for those around him. He transformed…
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