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Champions of 2023: how domination is the trend

Just as Max Verstappen has wiped the floor in Formula 1, so across the motor racing disciplines we have seen drivers eclipsing rivals

Stroll targets Le Mans win with Valkyrie

Aston Martin will head to Le Mans in

McLaren united for La Sarthe comeback

Could a crack at the new LMGT3 class

Barclay banks a podium in E-type guest showing

Alex Brundle (No1) leads the Jaguar Challenge field

Keanu’s excellent F1 adventure

First we had Brad Pitt at Silverstone ahead

Hammer to fall on Hill memorabilia

Trophies and memorabilia from the career of Graham

Look, no driver? It’s coming…

The prospect of autonomous motor sport taking its

Drive to archive

A rare opportunity to own a Lewis Hamilton race-winning Formula 1 Mercedes is expected to create a stir in Las Vegas

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“Arguments rage about whether Andretti can reach a deal with Liberty”

Although the FIA, as the sport’s governing body,

TRACKSIDE VIEW

Now late into the 2023 season, the drivers have the sizzling conditions of Qatar and Texas to tackle, with Mercedes showing signs of improvement

Piastri plays his part in McLaren resurgence

Max Verstappen might have taken his third F1 title in three years but Woking’s finest is showing true fighting spirit as the season progresses. Mark Hughes reports from Lusail and Austin

Compound fracture

At COTA, Mercedes threw away the chance of a first victory of the season. Mark Hughes explains how its tyre strategy for Lewis Hamilton backfired... not that it mattered in the end

Good month, bad month

Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

Hamilton uncovered

Extraordinary tales from the Motor Sport digital archive

“Recently Pérez has been nowhere near Verstappen. In Qatar his performance was embarrassing”

JONATHAN BUSHELL Sergio Pérez has a contract with

“So will an Indian manufacturer ever contest MotoGP? Why not?”

Something significant happened in the world of motorcycling

“One generation’s greats become a following generation’s so-whats”

Way back around 195960 I recall it was

“Will the Land Speed Record ever be broken again? In my lifetime, I doubt it”

Hi,”saidthesmartlydressed lady in the hospitality unit at the

Can perfection be upgraded?

When the Alpine A110 arrived six years ago, Andrew Frankel was blown away. Now the R version has arrived... but all is not well

The wheels on the bus...

New eight-seat Defender 130 is large of space and character

Stellar performer

This Polestar has the legs for long trips and premium qualities

Disruptive colourways

A weighty book about Benetton’s rise and fall in F1 is as vibrant as the team’s racing car liveries, says Gordon Cruickshank

Copper promises gold

A five-way fight for the Extreme E title will give a fraught climax to season three in Chile. Ed Hardy assesses all the ifs and ands

Jimmie Johnson

He first raced on sand and aimed for IndyCar. Instead, this Californian matched Petty and Earnhardt to become the new king of NASCAR

MY LIFE IN CARS

Sprint race... Lewis or Max? Max. Senna or

Flashback...

An impromptu 1991 boat trip around Sydney Harbour and a visit to the cinema remind Maurice Hamilton how Formula 1 people used to spend their downtime between popular ‘flyaway’ grands prix

PLAYING CATCH-UP

In 1977, Lotus stole a march on its Formula 1 rivals with its ground effect design. As Mark Hughes sets out, there are clear parallels between Colin Chapman’s foresight and what is happening at Red Bull today

VIVA LAS VEGAS?

Forty-one years after the last grand prix in Sin City, Formula 1 heads for The Strip. As Edd Straw reveals, it’s a comeback that promises to outclass Miami for glitz and glamour but for Liberty Media much is riding on its success

Riding the “F1 new wave” in Las Vegas

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WORD ON THE STREETS

We all love a city circuit but as Clive Bowen of Apex Circuit Design tells Damien Smith, regular roads – especially in the US – can cause plenty of problems

DO THE STRIP

What’s Las Vegas like to drive? Pietro Fittipaldi, the Haas F1 reserve who has taken on the track in the team’s simulator, guides us round a lap of the dazzling new 3.8-mile circuit

“HOW I ALMOST GOT THE FIRST LAS VEGAS GP CANCELLED”

Really? No doubt about it. Back in 1981, it was only the intervention of the FIA president that saved the race... and an impertinent Limey hack from a trip to the cooler, as Mike Doodson recalls

Aston’s grand prix pioneer

With the brand back in Formula 1, Mark Bisset recalls where it all started with the experimental DP155 and how, after the trials of just one tour of New Zealand in 1956, it finally found redemption

For the love of his art

Taking photos of racing drivers and their cars for money was never the point for master lensman Rainer W Schlegelmilch, as a new book featuring his images of Porsche sports cars reveals

Turning a new page

The inaugural Motoring Literary & Art Festival at Silverstone promises something fresh this winter. Damien Smith is your guide

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Afew years ago I was lucky enough to

A LANGE & SÖHNE

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CHRISTOPHER WARD

When Mike France, Peter Ellis and Chris Ward

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BROOKLANDS

The recordbreaking Napier Railton has been an inspiration

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We can expect to see the products of

ROLEX

To mark the 60th birthday of its celebrated

AUDEMARS PIGUET

Launched in 1993, Audemars Piguet’s original Offshore featured

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Founded in 1861 as a maker of wall

MAURICE LACROIX

Back in 2013 Maurice Lacroix launched one of

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The Doxa Sub of 1967 might never have

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The name Newport will be familiar to yachting

BELL & ROSS

What began in 1992 as a university project

BREITLING

Breitling’s business-like Avenger watch was created 20 years

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Neil Duckworth has been a British watch industry

TAG HEUER

TAG Heuer has brought 81-year-old Japanese racing driver

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There were radical things happening in horology back

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British entrepreneur Jonny Garrett found horological inspiration in

The 2023 Christmas Gift Guide

Fancy going one better than socks in a box this Christmas? Whether buying gifts or dropping hints, take your choice from the finest the Motor Sport shop has to offer

Arriba, arriba!

For Simon de Burton, the Escort Mexico is the car of his dreams, and he’s found the best available example on the planet

Kuwaiti royals’ orange crush

Simon de Burton on citric Astons, an exotic Alpine and other assorted auction highlights

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VSCC competitor Rebecca Smith looks back over the late summer’s club activities, including a family hillclimb and a tour to Northern Ireland, before tragedy struck at Mallory Park

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