“There is a magic and mystique to Le Mans that can be hard to pin down”

The first Le Mans 24 Hours took place

An evening with Tom Kristensen

LE MANS’ GREATEST DRIVER

Goodwood’s Members’ Meeting drops the flag on ’23

There’s still a nip in the air, but the 80th MM gave some searingly hot grids to start this year’s historic calendar – with the likes of Gordon Murray, Tom Kristensen and Rob Huff in attendance

Motorsport UK gets on-stream with TV hub

Motorsport UK, the UK’s governing body for all

Lancia to make World Rallycross debut… sort of

The headline alone is enough to get us

IndyCar gets its own Drive to Survive

Kyle Kirkwood’s victory at Long Beach means IndyCar

Craig Breen 1990-2023

The Irish rally driver was just 33 years

Ferrari’s Hypercar team goes green

Whatever happens to Ferrari at Le Mans, no

Kenneth McAlpine 1920-2023

Kenneth McAlpine, of the McAlpine building and civil

Rainbow warrior

Judged too powerful for the road by TVR’s owner meant this Cerbera Speed 12 is probably the ultimate a one-off.

“On performance alone, Senna annihilated Prost at McLaren in ’88 and ’89”

The numbers work in a very different way

TRACKSIDE VIEW

There were colliding fortunes for the Red Bull team-mates in the Australian Grand Prix amid spins, shunts, slides and a slew of red flags and safety cars

Red Bull’s mind games

Another race, another win for Max, but is paranoia creeping into the team battle? Mark Hughes reports from Albert Park

Red flag to a Bull

Max Verstappen wasn’t happy about the race stoppages, and neither were many others. So what’s the solution?

Word on the beat

Binotto rumours and talk of a 50% female F1 team

Treading carefully

When Williams’ Alex Albon crashed out in Melbourne, it put Formula 1 teams in a quandary. Mark Hughes explains how the stoppage led to much head-scratching about tyre strategy

Good month, bad month

Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

Why Hill will always be Mr Monaco

F1 RETRO – MARCH 2002

“Decisions should be made by F1 and the FIA. The teams shouldn’t have a say. They have too much power”

JONATHAN BUSHELL So we’re facing a season of

“Had Jarno Saarinen lived longer, grand prix racing could have been different”

Fifty years ago Jarno Saarinen was on his

“The most admirable trophy was the ‘Floatile’ for the Can-Am series”

Motor racing trophies embody an enormously wide range

“If BMW launched the i3 and i8 today, we’d greet them as engineering miracles”

Unless it is timed correctly, a good idea

Lamborghini’s V8 novelty act

In an age when supercar makers seem to believe bigger is always better, the Urus Performante fits in, says Andrew Frankel

R8 makes its last stand

Audi’s ageing usable supercar is pricey but it’s still a performer

Parallel streamlines

No, it isn’t a Porsche, yet there’s Teutonic cool to the Ioniq 6 EV

Jung at heart

With its dashboard-esque subdials and easy-to-read features the Meister Chronoscope by Junghans has motoring in its fabric

Blue is the colour – and the mood left behind

Prestige, cashflow, jobs – all seemed assured with Bugatti’s rebirth. Gordon Cruickshank learns what stifled the dream

F1’s straight-talker

Already a pivot of the Netflix series, Haas F1 boss Guenther Steiner now lets loose in his entertaining diary of 2022

Fired up for the 500

Warm up with the Monaco Grand Prix, and then catch the 107th running of IndyCar’s world-class seasonal showpiece

THE MOTOR SPORT INTERVIEW Hans Stuck

An endurance racing specialist with two Le Mans victories to his credit, plus 74 grand prix starts during a battling Formula 1 career. His story is as endearing as he is.

Flashback...

This month we are at the 1993 Monaco Grand Prix with Maurice Hamilton, who has spotted Road to Hell crooner and motor racing devotee Chris Rea in town with the Jordan team as part of a surprise birthday celebration for Rubens Barrichello

LETTERS

GETTY IMAGES, GRAND PRIX PHOTO I write in

Le Mans

Ahead of the centenary of the world’s greatest race, we catalogue 100 historic moments that helped define the legend of the Grand Prix de Vitesse et d'Endurance

WHO WILL WIN THE RACE OF THE CENTURY?

With the Le Mans 24 Hours just weeks away, With the Le Mans 24 Hours just weeks away, Gary Watkins studies the Hypercar form from the early rounds of WEC and IMSA to see if any teams are strong enough to challenge Toyota

Many parts make a whole

It may be a replica, but this exquisite Audi Quattro breaks the mould by using only original components, says Simon de Burton

Nippy Cooper has the Fangio touch

● Think of PEUGEOT’s rally heritage and the

Goodwood’s got you covered, classic car owners

There’s a lot of work that goes into

A roaring investment

Simon de Burton’s sales round-up includes a 911 R money-spinner and the 27-litre Beast

JACK BRABHAM SIGNED MODEL

It’s arguable that, amongst the pantheon of F1

“JOINED UP WRITING THIS TIME PLEASE!” BOOK

You may know of Martin Tomlinson for his

LE MANS PANORAMIC

In the mood to just stare lovingly at

STEVE McQUEEN LE MANS PRESS BOOK

An original 1970s press book produced by the

THE EXPERT VIEW

Modelling degrees

Sticking with it…

Some braking drama may have hampered VSCC competitor Rebecca Smith on the recent Herefordshire Trial, but it didn’t dull the joy of competing.

“The biggest and the best”

That’s what Denis Jenkinson called the United States Grand Prix, and in October 1972 Jan Edick was at Watkins Glen in New York state to capture the action in the final round of a thrilling season

NOVEMBER 16, 1965 BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, US

Craig Breedlove, who died last month, walks away