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Corvette tops the bill at Monterey

Anniversaries, automotive rarities, hypercar reveals and auction action – here’s what you missed at another compelling Car Week

Button lines up 963 for Petit Le Mans

Jenson Button will return to top-level sports car

Jake Dennis crowned king of Formula E

Britain has a new FIA world champion. Jake

ACE aims to find a world champ on the cheap

GETTY IMAGES, DAVID COYNE ACE, a new electric

New literary festival launch set for Silverstone

December is officially a dry month for motoring

Will Renault pull the plug on F1 again?

Questions have been raised about Renault’s future in

Volvo dumps its signature estates

Any hope of a revival of one of

Sleeper service

An original Mercedes 190E as raced by Niki Lauda in a one-off at the Nürburgring? This is a car with a curious track record

“Williams, as an organisation, no longer knew what it didn’t know”

Williams has seen so many false dawns since

Verstappen on cloud nine

Home-turf GPs saw Max’s consecutive wins tally equal Ascari and Vettel’s record. Mark Hughes reports on the latest routs

Renault on the ropes

Regardless of a third-place for Alpine at Zandvoort, the A523’s engine is lagging behind its rivals – by 25bhp

Word on the beat

Musical chairs and tittle tattle from the F1 paddock

Weather permitting

Without an appropriate rear wing, Lando Norris nosedived at the Belgian Grand Prix. But as Mark Hughes explains, precipitation proved an unlikely ally and disaster was averted

Good month, bad month

Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

Nelson defeats the French

F1 RETRO – NOVEMBER 2009

“I sense from the Hamilton camp there’s a feeling they won’t be able to win another title with Mercedes”

JONATHAN BUSHELL I’ve said it before, I’ll say

“Bonmartini boasted that his bike would be ‘a two-wheeled Bugatti’”

Motorcycling’s most popular engine configuration celebrates its 100th

“This is a vastly different world accommodating a vastly different sport”

A late, lugubrious – but wise – friend

“When you come into the pits, do not trust yourself, only your speedometer”

I drove the new Ford Mustang in North

The last stand of the ’Stang?

Ford’s famed pony could be approaching its final pasture. But not before one more V8-powered canter, says Andrew Frankel

Tech can’t save us all

Despite its three power units, basic flaws hold this SUV back

Hidden elegance

The new hybrid M760e has beauty beneath the surface

Feel like a Newman

With its stand-out sub-dials and orange detailing, this Nivada Grenchen resembles a timepiece that the Winning actor wore

World titles and plates of sandwiches

A strapping new book on Tyrrell’s history shows what can be achieved within a homely set-up, says Gordon Cruickshank

Home sweet home

Kyalami is a special circuit, and one that has witnessed huge change and its fair share of characters over the past 60 years

Qatar ready to star

After a two-year break, Formula 1 heads back to the Lusail circuit to start a decade-long run. Ed Hardy looks ahead to the race

Howden Ganley

He claims nobody remembers him as a racer, but as one of the sport’s formative Kiwi innovators, he became a lynchpin of some of the f inest teams

Martin Brundle

My family car as a child... My earliest

Flashback...

Nigel Mansell rarely steered away from conflict, whether on the track or off it. Maurice Hamilton recalls a crunch legal meeting held outside the Ferrari motorhome ahead of the 1989 Spanish GP

THE LIKELY LADS

With 250-plus F1 starts between them, George Russell, Lando Norris and Alex Albon are now battle-hardened pros – but is there a future world champion in our midst? Chris Medland asks the questions

The power of three over the rest of 2023

Damien Smith reviews the season performances of our homegrown trio and assesses their needs for the run-in

ON THE JAGGED EDGE

History hasn’t been kind to the reputation of Jaguar’s short-lived XJR-15 road racer, but is it all that bad? Andrew Frankel heads to Donington Park to find out first hand

Goodwood’s blue-sky thinker

The huge sculpture on the Duke of Richmond’s front lawn has become an essential element of the Festival of Speed. Adam Hay-Nicholls meets Gerry Judah, the creative figure behind the awe-inspiring Central Feature design

DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?

As Max Verstappen zeroes in on a third world title, Mark Hughes recalls his debut victory in 2016, which was so tense it gave his father a nosebleed and saw him hailed as the “talent of the century”

WHEN ARROWS GOT THE POINT

Arrows was the archetypal underdog of Formula 1 in a span of time that crossed four decades. But in 1989, its striking A11 almost hit the target, as Damien Smith recounts from a special team reunion

UNDER THE RADAR

Mallock is one of Britain’s foremost racing families. They just don’t like to talk about it… until now. Damien Smith paid a visit to RML’s headquarters to find out more about an understated powerhouse

Ray Mallock BACK TO THE BEGINNING

With RML now in the safe hands of a younger Mallock, its founder can get back to pursuing the passion that started it all, says Damien Smith

The B’s knees

Tony Brooks brought fame to Connaught at the 1955 Syracuse GP. Simon de Burton takes a look at an example still making history

Biasion’s Sanremo remake anyone?

● They say there’s no championship victory like

From dark to the spotlight

Simon de Burton reports on the rarest Koenigsegg of them all, and the Queen’s Jag

More vroom for your room

Fans of motor racing art, artefacts and ephemera will find a huge range, including these collectibles, at the Motor Sport shop – motorsportmagazine.com/shop

THE EXPERT VIEW

People like me…

Double duty at Donington Park

HISTORIC RACING

PARTING SHOT

JUNE 10, 1969 LE MANS, FRANCE Gulf-JW drivers