Motor Sport

The intra-team rivalry at McLaren is hotting up,

Motor Sport

Juan Manuel Fangio congratulates Stirling Moss on his

From the archives...

With superb new documentary Earnhardt now on Amazon, we rewind to a 2011 Motor Sport feature written 10 years on from Dale’s death at Daytona

LETTERS

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Aintree

Britain’s forgotten F1 venue

What are the odds of this?

A secret Mercedes commemoration of its 1955 British GP win at Aintree gave modern F1 hero George Russell a chance to ride in honour of Moss and Fangio

THE EDITOR

Before the 2024 season started we looked at

F1 frontline

Ferrari’s team principal Frédéric Vasseur is in the media firing line. MARK HUGHES smells some strong management meddling

PADDOCK TALK

“This is a black day. We have to

F1 insider

We saw a rare apology ogy from Max in Spain. KARUN CHANDHOK isn’t expecting many more niceties es from the Schuey of our times

POSTCARD FROM America

JOHN OREOVICZ reports on a knife-edge finish for Acura in the Watkins Glen 6 Hours, while NASCAR hops the border to Mexico

JUNE 2, 2025 ISLE OF MAN

Across the broad spectrum of all motor sport

Drive OF THE month

LE MANS 24HRS SPECIAL

Top 5... Fastest FoS times

Goodwood’s Festival of Speed – which takes place July 10-13 – reaches a swiftness zenith with its hillclimb shoot-out. Here are the zippiest cars and drivers to have tackled the incline

Porsche’s 963 Hypercar takes to the streets

CAR OF THE MONTH – PORSCHE 963 RSP

Longford

GREAT LOST CIRCUITS

My month on the track

ON TRACK

BERNIE’S V8s AND HISTORIC OUTLAWS

Donington Park, Leicestershire, July 19 The Bernie in

ECORALLY SCOTLAND

Dundee, July 26-27

BMCRC INTERNATIONAL SIDECAR REVIVAL

Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire, August 2-3

FESTIVAL ITALIA

Brands Hatch, Kent, August 10

THE HIMALAYAN DRIVE

New Delhi-Mussoorie-New Delhi, India, November 1-10

On the road...

THE MOTOR SPORT MONTH THROUGH THE LENS OF PAUL LAWRENCE

Does racing’s new blockbuster have the winning formula?

MOVIE OF THE MONTH

COLLECTIBLES

in association with The Signature Store

THE COLLECTOR

If the glove fits…

Rumblings

Our ears may be thankful, but, says DOUG NYE , the heart misses the V10 howl that was the soundtrack to F1 races 20 years ago

ON THIS MONTH...

Aintree odour, Brits abroad and Moss’s C

Stirling work marks ’55 Mille Miglia

It’s 70 years since Moss & Jenks’ win in ‘722’. As SIMON DE BURTON says, watchmakers love an anniversary

Motorbikes

Piero Taruffi is best known for his drives in 1950s F1 and sports cars but his love of speed started on two wheels, says

Road cars

With another Le Mans under his belt, ANDREW FRANKEL looks back at his weekend with Aston Martin, whose key aim was to finish

Is Morgan finally in the pink?

THE FRANKEL REVIEW

DRIVER’S CAR – TO A ‘T’

Behold, a manual with the true spirit of

ALPINE IN MACAN TERRITORY

New 2.1-tonne electric crossover for late ’25

EV TO BE ‘BEST BENTLEY EVER’

Bold claims from Crewe about its 2027 SUV

Formula E

Good times return at Jaguar TCS Racing with a win in Shanghai. Game on for Berlin and London, says principal

Wild wood

With its ply chassis, the Marcos 1800 GT was light, fast and, according to Simon de Burton , better-looking than an E-type

Royal E-type reigned the autobahns

● Ever been told you have heirs and

Red hot drop top

AUCTION HERO

Flaming Lamborghini

From a £3.3m Miura to a zero-mile moped, here’s Simon de Burton ’s auction round-up

PARTING SHOT

RAY BROCK/THE ENTHUSIAST NETWORK VIA GETTY IMAGES JULY

It’s crunch time

Will McLaren’s Lando Norris or Oscar Piastri be 2025’s world champion? As Edd Straw says, this is not just a test of driver skill – it’s also a battle of the mind

Aussie Grit

Australia is never far from a major sporting triumph. Paul Fearnley reckons there's another on the way - in F1. Here's why it happens

THE REST IS HISTORY

Martin Brundle, Ollie Bearman and cars from the first F1 World Championship race. James Elson is trackside for a 75th anniversary showdown

Well, you knew it would be a two-horse race

For a while we’ve suspected this season would be a McLaren shoo-in. As a much-travelled Mark Hughes reports, the wins keep coming for the papaya perfectionists

It was only a matter of time

In the Canadian GP, Lando Norris took ownership of a crash with Oscar Piastri – which the team had been expecting

Verstappen fright... but no sweat for Woking

Max was in the mix in the Spanish heat, but McLaren kept its cool

Word on the beat

A slap on the wrist for Warwick, Max’s future and Bottas might be back

BREAKING DOWN WALLS

Fifty years ago Lella Lombardi became the only ever female to score in the F1 World Championship. As Jon Saltinstall reveals, she faced her career with quiet determination and kept her personal life away from the press

Was it a ‘fix’?

FANGIO VS MOSS AT AINTREE 1955

"ONE PERSON WHO DEFINITELY DIDN’T DESIGN THE MP4/4 WAS ME. BUT I WAS CHIEF FROM THE MP4/5"

For half a century, Neil Oatley has lived and breathed Formula 1 and is still involved on a day-today basis with McLaren. Retirement? No time soon...

At home with the Delecours

Former WRC driver François Delecour is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, he’s in a perpetual busy state, as Anthony Peacock discovers when he visits the family retreat in the south of France

SHOTGUN WITH SEB

It isn’t everyday you get to be co-driver to the most prolific WRC champion. Joe Dunn straps himself in for the ride of his life