Motor Sport Magazine

A century ago, The Brooklands Gazette was launched by an enterprising publisher, dedicated to covering the best of the burgeoning world of motor racing. The magazine was soon renamed Motor Sport and now, 100 years on, continues to flourish as an independent, free-speaking voice for racing fans worldwide. As we celebrate the momentous year in 2024, we will feature the latest articles and podcasts that look back over a century of racing; the ways that you can get involved; and some of the best writing from the magazine’s history.

“As we mark our centenary we’ll continue to report in the Spirit of Bod and Jenks ”

COLOFON

Motor Sport at 100: here’s our story so far • With the Green ’Un celebrating its century in this issue, Gordon Cruickshank recalls the leading characters and landmark dates that have shaped the title since 1924

“Essentially this is Adrian Newey serving out his gardening leave”

“Pedro Acosta is MotoGP’s most exciting arrival since Marc Márquez”

“Jenks was an enthusiast observer, eager to share what he had experienced”

ANDREW FR ANK EL

KARUN CHANDHOK

“About time” – Lando finally gets his F1 win • Three GPs in a month, three different winners – and with a fast McLaren, Red Bull is feeling the strain, reports Mark Hughes

You win, you lose...

Word on the beat

Just one more lap... • Lando Norris laments his Imola set-up in his hunt for a second successive win. Mark Hughes takes us through the track drama

Wild ride to the top

Good month, bad month

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Two-tonne fun sponge

The most maxi Mini

The MS team on the road

Keep a lid on it

Watt’s the story?

Flashback... • If the Canadian GP wasn’t exciting enough in 1994, Maurice Hamilton witnessed the F1 teams’ other ‘race’ of the weekend – using boats fashioned from garage flotsam and jetsam

LETTERS

INTRODUCTION

A CENTURY OF RACING • While we count the votes for the best racer of the past 100 years, Andrew Frankel takes a closer look at the shortlist – at Silverstone

“A rough diamond polished to a shine”

’Stone rousers

“MOTOR RACING BACK THEN WAS COLOURFUL, GLAMOROUS AND EXCITING. THAT’S WHAT DREW ME TO IT” • It was the time of heroes such as Moss, Fangio and Ascari, drivers who were redefining what it meant to be a racer and in the crowd a young Sir Jackie Stewart felt the first stirrings of desire to follow suit. Here he explains the intoxicating attraction of 1950s motor sport

Calling all the heroes

AGE OF INNOCENCE • Exhaust smoke, noise, towering characters, innovation, pushing the boundary of possibility – all things Gordon Murray loved about motor racing in the 1960s. As he sets out here, today’s F1 could learn from this thrilling decade

Red, white and blue

A flare of colour • John Watson recalls how Formula 1 provided a dazzling escape from the gloom of 1970s Britain – a decade full of enormous personalities, tech gambles... and James Hunt

We’re going to need a bigger trophy room

“The racers I knew...”

McLAREN’S REVOLUTION • At the start of the decade the Woking team looked a spent force. By 1989 it was invicible. Here, visionary design chief John Barnard looks back on his game-changing partnership with Ron Dennis and the birth of an F1 superpower

Decade of many excesses

HOW BIG BRANDS RALLIED TO THE CAUSE • In the 1990s WRC became front-page news thanks to the Prodrive-run success of the Impreza. David Richards recalls heady times of innovation played to a Britpop soundtrack

Triumph, tragedy and a sonic boom

WHEN RACING BECAME A MARATHON AND A SPRINT • As the millennium turned, Allan McNish found himself at the heart of a revolution, both in...