Letters from Bavaria

THE EDITOR

Is there a British bias in Formula 1?

Spa’s winteroverhaul revealed

After several months, and almost £67m, track safety work on one of the world’s best-loved circuits is almost complete

Peugeot shows off its wingless wonder Hypercar

PEUGEOT APPEARS ADAMANT THAT IT CAN successfully fly

Rossi to tackle GT World Challenge

FRESH FROM HANGING UP HIS LEATHERS, Valentino Rossi

Prost hits out at Alpine after exit

IT’S RARE YOU HEAR A FORMULA 1 DRIVER

Age + experience =a win at the Monte-Carlo Rally

WHO SAID YOU CAN’T TEACH OLD dogs new

EVTOL series picks its first pilots

THE AIRSPEEDER SERIES FOR ELECTRIC aircraft has announced

Baby boomer – Gordon Murray reveals T.33

GORDON MURRAY AUTOMOTIVE HAS revealed its junior supercar,

“F1 relies on creativity for success, and people can’t be afraid to fail”

The new season will begin with new team

Breaking up is hard to do

F1 TEAM NEWS

Good month, bad month

Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

50 shades of Graham

F1 RETRO – NOVEMBER 2015

It’ll all come out in the wash

MOTOR SPORT TECH

“Bringing back ground-effect aerodynamics has been brewing for a long time”

JOHNNY HERBERT

“Breakfast was a couple of cans of baked beans, heated up on the Primus stove”

Half a century ago it wasn’t easy being

“From its debut in the Dutch GP in 1962 the Lotus 25 was the car to beat”

This new year sees a big anniversary for

“Looking at the T.33, I saw some of my favourite 1960s sports cars staring back”

I’ve known Gordon Murray for at least 30

Fast, brash and lots of cash

Phenomenally quick, the new Audi RS 3 is a firm response to Mercedes’ A45 S – but as Andrew Frankel asks, does it justify the cost?

Into the firing line

Genesis’s shooting brake has Germans in the crosshairs

Gauge appropriate

Giuliano Mazzuoli’s cult Manometro watch is designed to look like a pressure dial. Don’t blow a gasket... it’s back after a five-year gap

The start of something green

A radically revisited volume applauds a man and a team who put Britain on top of the world, says Gordon Cruickshank

Whistle-blower No1

A new edition of Bentley Boy ‘Tim’ Birkin’s autobiography, first published in 1932, has lost none of its charm or political bite

Let’s go round again

Withdrawal symptoms taking effect now? Fear not, the Formula 1 circus is setting up camp for some pre-season fine-tuning

GOODWOOD TRACK DAY

Get a taste of the Goodwood Members’ Meeting with Motor Sport

Anthony Davidson

“You don’t win Le Mans, Le Mans chooses who wins,” is a phrase this racer grew to accept. Now retired, he looks back at his La Sarthe bad fortune, his F1 pride and his sports car glory days

MY Greatest RIVAL

ANTHONY REID ON TOM KRISTENSEN

Flashback...

For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we are at Williams’ Didcot HQ off-season in 1985, along with a few journalists, being served soup by Frank

LETTERS

Does Graham Hill’s superb drive in the 1960

MORE ABU DHABI REACTION...

AS AN AUSTRALIAN I APOLOGISE FOR the decision

KING CRIMSON

Sixty years ago, Ferrari unveiled the 250 GTO, a road-usable racer that went on to become the world’s most desirable car. Doug Nye reunites with an old friend

The greatest... or just very good?

Glance at the stats and there’s no doubting the Ferrari 250 GTO’s competition record – more than 50 race wins between 1962 and ’65. But as Doug Nye assesses, is its legendary status really justified?

Beyond compare

Prices fluctuate in the collecting world but as David Gooding, founder and president of auction house Gooding & Company explains, when you buy a Ferrari 250 GTO the only way is up

GTO GOES RACING

As 1962 got underway, Ferrari was still rumbling from its internal tectonic shifts of personnel, yet a display of its latest racing machinery on a February day was a sure sign of intent. Among the line-up was the new 250 GT Berlinetta, aka GTO, which, as James Page tells, made a quick impact with the world’s best drivers at the wheel

TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN

It’s 20°C and there isn’t a cloud in the sky – although that’s to be expected in Saudi Arabia in January. James Elson packs his T-shirts to follow the dune duels of the 2022 Dakar Rally

FANGIO VERSUS ASCARI

In their pomp, this pair mopped up F1 titles. Paul Fearnley recounts a rivalry that captivated the world, but was cruelly cut short

King size allies

In 1972, the colours of Marlboro were first seen on a Formula 1 car and its distinctive chevron design would become an intrinsic – some might say iconic – element of grand prix races. Mark Hughes charts the ties between F1 teams and the best-selling cigarette brand and reveals why their union proved a hard habit to break

F1’s addictive alliance

The smouldering bonds between motor racing and Marlboro

CZECH MATE

You’ve probably never heard of the Praga R1 before, but competitors in the Britcar series are fully aware of its blistering capability on track. This year the R1 gets its own onemake cup, and as Andrew Frankel discovers at Donington, it’s a dream

SHED HEAVEN

While Ferrari and Lotus had the luxury of racing tracks near their engineering sites, at Tyrrell the set-up was less sophisticated. Simon Arron speaks to Jackie Stewart about the Surrey team’s extraordinary climb to the top of the world from a timberyard

End of the road?

The original Tyrrell Shed remains, for now, but time is running out for this primary piece of F1 history

Rally royale

BUYING, SELLING, AUCTIONS, MEMORABILIA

Buy a Rolls-Royce – life is too short

● For most manufacturers, 2021 will be a

The Anglo-Italian job

AUCTION HERO

California dreaming

AUCTION PICKS

Apparel spritz

AUCTION FOCUS

Prost’s Sega mega-drive

Editor’s choice

THE EXPERT VIEW

Title-winner’s aura

Fast-track to the grid

BUYING GUIDE

Spring has sprung, and it’s full-on

HISTORIC RACING

This is where London was swinging in the ’60s

It was more about Minis than miniskirts at Crystal Palace, where John Marsh attended the 1968 Formula 2 London Trophy race, luckily for us taking his camera along

PARTING SHOT

AUGUST 23, 1978 VOLKSWAGEN TEST TRACK, WOLFSBURG, WEST GERMANY