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Flashback...

If the Canadian GP wasn’t exciting enough in 1994, Maurice Hamilton witnessed the F1 teams’ other ‘race’ of the weekend – using boats fashioned from garage flotsam and jetsam

LETTERS

Would the inclusion of Andretti add some much-needed

A CENTURY OF RACING

While we count the votes for the best racer of the past 100 years, Andrew Frankel takes a closer look at the shortlist – at Silverstone

“A rough diamond polished to a shine”

With wheelspin a possibility at any time, on track you treat a Porsche 917 with respect...

’Stone rousers

Editor Joe Dunn and art editor Owen Norris

“MOTOR RACING BACK THEN WAS COLOURFUL, GLAMOROUS AND EXCITING. THAT’S WHAT DREW ME TO IT”

It was the time of heroes such as Moss, Fangio and Ascari, drivers who were redefining what it meant to be a racer and in the crowd a young Sir Jackie Stewart felt the first stirrings of desire to follow suit. Here he explains the intoxicating attraction of 1950s motor sport

Calling all the heroes

The F1 World Championship begins, the Brits take Le Mans and Moss wins the Mille Miglia

AGE OF INNOCENCE

Exhaust smoke, noise, towering characters, innovation, pushing the boundary of possibility – all things Gordon Murray loved about motor racing in the 1960s. As he sets out here, today’s F1 could learn from this thrilling decade

Red, white and blue

By the 1960s, the British lead on all fronts but the tragic death of Jim Clark leaves us lost for words

A flare of colour

John Watson recalls how Formula 1 provided a dazzling escape from the gloom of 1970s Britain – a decade full of enormous personalities, tech gambles... and James Hunt

We’re going to need a bigger trophy room

British drivers make their mark in sports cars, rally and F1, and Williams finally arrives

“The racers I knew...”

I was fortunate to race with and against

McLAREN’S REVOLUTION

At the start of the decade the Woking team looked a spent force. By 1989 it was invicible. Here, visionary design chief John Barnard looks back on his game-changing partnership with Ron Dennis and the birth of an F1 superpower

Decade of many excesses

Power dressing and shoulder pads were all the rage in the ’80s, which transferred to the track

HOW BIG BRANDS RALLIED TO THE CAUSE

In the 1990s WRC became front-page news thanks to the Prodrive-run success of the Impreza. David Richards recalls heady times of innovation played to a Britpop soundtrack

Triumph, tragedy and a sonic boom

Touring cars and WRC are ascendant, the LSR is smashed, but F1 deaths overshadow racing

WHEN RACING BECAME A MARATHON AND A SPRINT

As the millennium turned, Allan McNish found himself at the heart of a revolution, both in F1 and sports car racing. The pace of change was thrilling, as he recalls

Another century begins

Audi flexes its muscles at Le Mans, while Lewis

Choose your enemies well

In the Noughties, Allan McNish was one of Audi’s golden boys – but the wins were hard-earnt

RISE OF THE MACHINES

With Adrian Newey in charge of Red Bull design throughout the 2010s, world championships arrived. The grand draughtsman reveals the tricks of his trade – and gives some pointers to improving the sport

Let’s bring you right up to date

Hamilton vs Verstappen, hybrid power and Ferrari returns to winning ways at Le Mans

Blown and exhausted: why detail matters

Adrian Newey on squish loss, the Coandă effect and fumes fixes

Birthplace of motor sport

For Motor Sport and British motor racing, this is where it all started. Gordon Cruickshank visits Brooklands to compare what we said then with the actual cars today

And don’t forget...

Brooklands is also home to significant racing motorcycles

Spirit of the age

Not all the cars that Motor Sport reported on in its early years are museum pieces. Many are still being run in anger by a band of dedicated enthusiasts up and down the country from Goodwood to Shelsley Walsh

Highway to heaven

A gathering of some of the finest classic cars in the world, celebrated through shows, sport and sales. Simon de Burton is your guide to Monterey Car Week

Classic vs modern: it’s a question of risk

It’s the age-old daydream: pick an imaginary car

“As we mark our centenary we’ll continue to report in the Spirit of Bod and Jenks ”

On May 1st motor-racing history was made, for

INTRODUCTION

Oscar E Seyd, the first editor of this

Motor Sport at 100: here’s our story so far

With the Green ’Un celebrating its century in this issue, Gordon Cruickshank recalls the leading characters and landmark dates that have shaped the title since 1924

“Essentially this is Adrian Newey serving out his gardening leave”

As the Red Bull human drama continued to

KARUN CHANDHOK

“In Miami, Lando Norris took a popular victory”

“About time” – Lando finally gets his F1 win

Three GPs in a month, three different winners – and with a fast McLaren, Red Bull is feeling the strain, reports Mark Hughes

You win, you lose...

No hard feelings from Max Verstappen who had to settle for second place in Miami following a safety car period

Word on the beat

Sustainable fuel, team moves and a new Thai GP

Just one more lap...

Lando Norris laments his Imola set-up in his hunt for a second successive win. Mark Hughes takes us through the track drama

Good month, bad month

Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

Wild ride to the top

Extraordinary tales from the Motor Sport digital archive

“Pedro Acosta is MotoGP’s most exciting arrival since Marc Márquez”

MotoGP has never been harder fought than it

“Jenks was an enthusiast observer, eager to share what he had experienced”

On this magazine’s centenary may I muse upon

ANDREW FR ANK EL

“Lawrence Stroll told me his customers were in no hurry to trade V8s for electric”

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Twenty years ago Andrew Frankel was a Cayenne scoffer but with its petrol-driven story reaching its close, he’s now a firm fan

Two-tonne fun sponge

BMW saloon has SUV heft leaving it light in excitement

The most maxi Mini

Countryman stretches the boundary of Issigonis’s concept

The MS team on the road

Racing write-ups are central – but we’re often behind the wheel too

Keep a lid on it

The JX7 is a further collaboration between Chopard and Jacky Ickx, launched in readiness for the driver’s 80th birthday

Watt’s the story?

All-electric and possibly a shock or two, Formula E stops off in Portland for a second year – and it’s a crucial double-header

Keeping the dream alive

Chairperson Sandra Button on running the world-famous Pebble Beach Concours

Monterey Car Week

CALENDARCAR OF EVENTS

Great expectations

Take a peek into motoring’s future at Pebble Beach’s Concept Lawn

The history of track racing in one wild week

Hundreds of cars descend on Laguna Seca for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

David Gooding

The president of official auction house Gooding & Company takes our questions

Atom bomb

The fastest Ariel of them all? Simon de Burton looks at an endurance racer with a claim to being the ultimate track-day car

Granger things: coupé with a star past

KLASIKÓ, SLJ HACKETT ● As British stars of

That other Italian marque

Big bikes, a Transformers tribute and ogling an Ogle... it’s Simon de Burton’s sales picks

Racing’s formidables fill the frame

Fans of motor sport art and artefacts will find an array of products, including these commissioned works, at motorsportmagazine.com/shop

Hunting the stars

A question we’re often asked here at The

DECEMBER 7, 1968 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA

Twenty-eight-year-old hotshot American driver Mario Andretti gets up-to-date

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