2009 LE MANS WINNER’S TROPHY

THE EDITOR

Coulthard: “Surely you are wrong sometimes?” Schumacher: “Not that I remember”

LETTERS

The changes to Formula 1 pitstop regulations to

Hall of Fame 2021: help us decide the next racing great

It’s time for a further intake of sporting legends, and Motor Sport needs your vote!

Bitter Bluebird battle heads to court

Hydroplane racer Ted Walsh tests the rebuilt Bluebird

Russell finally gets Mercedes chance

INA SPORT LIKE FORMULA 1, WHERE MONEY talks

End of the road for the Moss 722

Final lap for the most famous Mercedes of

Last of the old guard

GORDON SPICE, WHO HAS DIED AGED 81 after

MARK HUGHES

“Williams’ recruitment of Alex Albon was part of a seismic political shift”

Trackside view

Formula 1’s first triple-header of the season brought drama by the bucketload. From McLaren breaking its duck, to Max and Lewis breaking each other (again)... not bad for two and a bit races

Two out of three ain’t bad for Verstappen

Red Bull’s team leader wins a race (and a bit) to extend his lead before clashing heads again with Hamilton, says Mark Hughes

Fine margins for overtaking

Passing at Zandvoort was no day at the beach, says Mark Hughes

JOHNNY HER BERT

“When looking at clashes like Max and Lewis, I always put my helmet back on...”

Time for a cool draught

Red Bull’s tangential enquiry to the FIA hints at a possible clever method of briefly boosting power on the Mercedes engine

Good month, bad month

James Elson charts the ups and downs of the F1 circus

The F1 champion over the Hill

F1 RETRO – JULY 2008

MAT OXLEY

“The first six bikes at Silverstone all came from different manufacturers”

DOUG NYE

“How many really recall any 1991 WSC rounds with much affection? ”

ANDREW FRANKEL

“If you drive a modern car, even its handbrake will have a microprocessor”

It doesn’t get much better

With a soaring price tag, the BMW M5 CS should seriously impress. Andrew Frankel heads to Thruxton on a fact-finding mission

Hats off, Hyundai

A young man’s game but there’s little to complain about

Petrol’s fond farewell

Before the Macan goes electric, here’s a late fossil-fuel flourish

V8 o’clock precisely

Breitling’s new automotive-infused Top Time Classic Cars Squad watches pay tribute to the Mustang, Cobra and Corvette

A study in scarlet

Can a complete catalogue of every grand prix Ferrari make for a readable volume? This one does, says Gordon Cruickshank

Full beam ahead

78th Goodwood Members’ Meeting, October 16-17

André Lotterer

THE MOTOR SPORT INTERVIEW

MY GREATEST RIVAL

ANTHONY DAVIDSON ON JENSON BUTTON

Flashback...

For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we are at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix as Marlboro promo personnel struggle to move an oversized Alain Prost

V12 SPECIAL

GETTY IMAGES, DPPI We seem destined to enter

The rise to power

With a lineage that takes in boat racing, aero-engines, the Land Speed Record and F1, the V12 has brought joy and tragedy along its journey. Paul Fearnley delves into the engine’s history to find out why its notes stir the senses like no other

ART OF NOISE

Having previously put a Porsche 962C through its paces, Andrew Frankel f inally gets to drive the sports racer that gave the Germans a mauling in 1987 – the Jaguar XJR-8. And this chassis was the wildest of all

JAGUAR'S PORSCHE-KILLER

Round 8 of the 1985 World Endurance Championship found the 6.2-litre Jaguar V12s at Brand Hatch – in British Racing Green

When V12s ruled La Sarthe

For four years Audi and Peugeot dozen-pot diesels duked it out

V12 greatest hits

Earplugs at the ready for Andrew Frankel’s top-10 rundown of V12 engines – an all-star cast featuring Ferrari, Aston Martin and BRM. Not ’arf, block pickers!

SOUND AND VISION

In the mid to late 1970s Ferrari painted the town red, with world titles for Niki Lauda and Jody Scheckter and an incredible 1-2 in ’79. But as Mark Hughes reveals, a major part of that success was the f lat-12 engine, which powered the Scuderia’s 37 wins over 10 seasons

OUT WITH A BANG

You won’t find many members of Extinction Rebellion protesting to highlight the plight of the V12 engine. Andrew Frankel is with the last of the breed – the Gordon Murray T.50 and Aston Martin Valkyrie – before they join the choir invisible

YOUNG GUNS

Watch out, there’s a new sheriff in town... In fact there are four. Preston Lerner witnesses IndyCar’s high noon as youth, in the form of Colton Herta, Pato O’Ward, Álex Palou and Rinus VeeKay, run the old-timers out of Dodge

ARCTIC MONKEYS

Lining up in some of the most inhospitable locations on the planet, Extreme E is motor sport with an environmental message. Adam Hay-Nicholls travelled to the frozen wilderness of Greenland to find out what all the noise (or lack of it) is about

The life aquatic with Extreme E

Welcome aboard St Helena –a floating paddock

A little more oomph

DEALER STAR CAR

A direct link to Steve McQueen’s Le Mans

● It seems you’re never far from a

Brawn supremacy

AUCTION HERO

A sincere form of flattery

AUCTION PICKS

Pedal to the metal

AUCTION FOCUS

THE EXPERT VIEW

Perfect half-measures

Contemporary Hamilton

Editor’s choice

The most raging bull

Sometimes things go further than just a single-make series, says Robert Ladbrook. This racer sparked a sports car revolution

Little goes a long way

Robert Ladbrook looks at the tiny car that changed road travel forever and launched more than a thousand racing variants

Everybody has to start somewhere

Before he became an F1 commentator, PR guru

JUNE 3, 1937 DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN

FOX PHOTOS/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES Prince Bira of Siam