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.

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White-hot fight for Le Mans falls to Ferrari

Galaxie heads Aintree cavalcade as circuit marks two anniversaries

Parnelli Jones 1933-2024

ExCel Formula 1 exhibition to focus on British talent

World RX plans for Coventry street circuit

TV sport legend revives hidden gems of motor sport film

Dumas makes it five at Pikes Peak

Lancia’s Land Rover lifesaver • WRC assistance vehicle answered trunk call

MARK HUGHES

MAT OXLEY

DOUG NYE

ANDREW FRANKEL

KARUN CHANDHOK

Mercedes returns as a frontrunner • What a difference a month makes. Mark Hughes takes us through the laps at Canada, Spain and Austria as a fourth team joins this season’s winners’ list

With its new wing Mercedes is flying • In Canada, technical director James Allison explained how an aero upgrade had made the team competitive again

Word on the beat • The latest Formula 1 news away from the grid

“Everything wrong” • Max Verstappen laid into his team after a disappointing Austrian GP but Mark Hughes can see the logic behind Red Bull’s thinking

Good month, bad month • Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus

Mercedes’ first GP comeback • Extraordinary tales from the Motor Sport digital archive

The civil side of savage • The new AMG GT 63 is performance engineering with everyday practicalities in mind. Andrew Frankel likes what he sees

Rolling in clover? • The revised Giulia Quadrifoglio has the looks but it’s no BMW

Just my prototype • On track in the Continental GT… It’s going to be a thoroughbred

The new black • Chanel’s ongoing use of coachbuilder Superleggera’s signature takes the fashion label further into masculine timepiece territory

Cool runnings • In praise of Porsche – experts and enthusiasts alike come together to mark 50 years of the 911 Turbo and 25 of the GT3

Smile and the world smiles with you • Racing drivers can take themselves too seriously but there are no such problems in Bob Evans’ autobiography, says Gordon Cruickshank

Set the record straight • As Roy Castle said, if you want to be the best, dedication’s what you need. And few were as devoted to speed as Goldie Gardner

Flashback… • Maurice Hamilton lifts his camera at Magny-Cours in ’94 as a TV presenter discusses the merits of French-made F1 engines

MOTORSPORT LETTERS • From David Wesley Tee, Production Manager of Motor Sport when owned by his father, Wesley J Tee.

Celebrate Motor Sport’s centenary

Your votes are in… • As part of our centenary celebrations we asked you, the reader, to help us choose the greatest racing car of the past 100 years from a shortlist of 10 cars that defined their decade. You voted in your thousands and here, in reverse order, is your verdict

GRAND PRIX CROWN JEWEL • Of all the racing cars made during the 100-year history of Motor Sport, the 49 is the true diamond. Karun Chandhok takes Graham Hill’s chassis R10 out for a few laps at Lotus’s sacred space – Hethel

Senna v Scooby: How F1 drivers voted • We asked the F1 grid to choose their favourite with some surprising...