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Twenty-nine years ago Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna

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Ferrari’s Le Mans return is a reality

A new era for Maranello has been unleashed with the launch of the astoundingly styled 499P Hypercar, which is scheduled to make its competition debut in March at the Sebring 1000 Miles

Mauro Forghieri: 1935-2022

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Bagnaia bags the big one

Bagnaia celebrates his maiden world title. Alex Rins

Have your say and win Goodwood tickets for two – worth £2000

Best race Awarded to the clash that stands

AMG One cuts 8sec off the ’Ring lap record

The road-legal Mercedes-AMG One ran riot at the

Aston goes high-Brough with new superbike

One of the biggest issues with being the

Simon Arron 1961-2022

Former editor of Motor Sport, colleague, friend and one of the sport’s great personalities. Mark Hughes will miss him...

“Dietrich Mateschitz was one of the most influential presences F1 has seen”

Dietrich Mateschitz passed away without the Formula 1

TRACKSIDE VIEW

Twenty-one down, one to go... it’s been a long season, and one that would have felt even longer for Mercedes if George Russell hadn’t finally grabbed a win...

Finally Russell gets his F1 win

Two of the three races were all about Max. But the third was a watershed moment for Mercedes’ rising star, says Mark Hughes

Red Bull to pay the price of cost cap break

Horner reckons it’s draconian, rival teams say it’s too little. Either way there will be knock-on effects from the breach

Word on the beat

FIA’s safety car findings and Alpine’s driver blast

Airs and paces

We know that atmospheric conditions affect the state of the track, but Mexico is more affected than most. Mark Hughes explains how Mercedes tripped up over track temperatures

‘The Shed’ takes on the world

F1 RETRO – MARCH 2022

Good month, bad month

Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

Altitude sickness

Why was Ferrari off the pace at Mexico? The F1-75’s unique turbo arrangement has a fear of heights, explains Mark Hughes

“It’s a dilemma – how to create super-close racing with fewer casualties”

Motorcycle racing has a problem. The smallest categories

“The Jaguar Competition Department ’s true character simply shines”

Real history is staggeringly complex. Therefore simplified history

“I’ll be sad to see the back of the Fiesta, far more than the Focus, Mondeo and Galaxy”

I’ve been asked a few times over the

“For every driver there comes a time when the edge goes. I hate saying it but did Lewis make such errors in the past?”

GRAND PRIX PHOTO Congratulations to George Russell for

Britannia rules... the SUV sector

Although the Sport moniker is misleading, Andrew Frankel’s pulse is quickening with the expensive new Range Rover diesel

Performance anxiety

Muscle-bound Toyota has meaty competition in Europe

Barman, champagne!

Super 3 marks Morgan’s arrival as a maker of true sports cars

Keep on running

Only the cruellest of hearts could fail to be enchanted by Seiko’s limited-edition ode to the long-lived Honda Super Cub motorbike

Bring on the prancing horses

As soon as it appeared the F40 became a poster car for Ferrari, as this epic biography details, says Gordon Cruickshank

Dust-up in the dunes

DECEMBER 2022–JANUARY 2023

Alastair Caldwell

The shades-wearing former team manager at McLaren recalls his early days with Bruce, James Hunt’s world title fight and why the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix holds a special place in his heart

MY Greatest RIVAL

DARREN TURNER ON OLIVER GAVIN

Flashback...

For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we’re at a send-off in 1992 for Goodyear’s straight-talking racing manager

LETTERS

Anthony Peacock’s look back at Group B rally

THREE POINTED STAR

A stunning maiden victory in Brazil for George Russell proved his pedigree and, as he tells Adam Cooper, fires the starting gun for a 2023 world title challenge

Russell rides out the W13’s rough edges

A difficult season for Mercedes perhaps, but George’s consistency bodes well for 2023

Opportunity knacks

Mark Hughes on Russell’s up-and-down ’22

History is made up of individual moments. Here are 10 that get to the heart of why Max Verstappen and Red Bull dominated in 2022

1 DNF in Melbourne capped a frustrating start

Fun while it lasted...

Regulars in the Spa Six Hours since 2004, ‘Team Frankel’ was once again at the Ardennes rollercoaster with its faithful Ford Falcon. Andrew Frankel recounts the ride

Delage à trois

The 1927 British GP, held at Brooklands, featured a historic 1-2-3 for French maker Delage. Ninety-five years later, Damien Smith is present for a special celebration where a trio of 15-S-8s, two from the race, return to the banking

French perfection

Model of the 1½-litre straight eight nears completion...

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

Praga has seen its stock rise in the racing paddock and now it’s tackling the road-legal hypercar market. Stephen Dobie tests the boundaries of the Bohema

Jacky ICKX His significant races

Jon Saltinstall, author of a new book on the multi-discipline Belgian, focuses on the results and reports to give us the master’s 10 key outings

Uncommonly good

BUYING, SELLING, AUCTIONS, MEMORABILIA

If you’ve ever dreamed of tartan seats…

● If you were a family of Vauxhall

Demob happy

With the cost-of-living crisis, a tank-engined one-off might not be on your wishlist. But if it is, Simon de Burton has found one...

Continental express

Simon de Burton’s sale round-up includes a well-travelled 300SL and a shunned 2CV

All you need is shove

Matchbox, Corgi, Dinky, Husky, Budgie – your fascination with the wheeled world probably started with your toy cars. As Gordon Cruickshank reveals, some are highly sought-after

250 GTO... this is your life

Editor’s choice

THE EXPERT VIEW

McQueen’s lost lid

Ending the season with an Iberian adventure

HISTORIC RACING

Winged F1 racers flock to Oulton

With Kodak Instamatic 500 in hand, James Cooper was a fan with a paddock pass at the 1968 Gold Cup. “My favourite team? Ferrari just edged it,” he says

PARTING SHOT

JULY 16, 1978, BRANDS HATCH, UK