Motor Sport Magazine

Published as the Brooklands Gazette in 1924, Motor Sport magazine is the best-known motor racing magazine in the world. From the very first issue celebrating record-breaking motor cycle racing at Brooklands to Stirling Moss’ win in the 1000-mile Mille Miglia, right up to modern F1 we’ve been there, bringing the action to the fans in the best format with unbeatable quality and authoritative content. As ever, the pages are brimmed with stunning images, plus anecdotes, tales and insight from leading writers including Nigel Roebuck, Maurice Hamilton, Doug Nye, Mark Hughes, Mat Oxley and Simon Arron.

THE EDITOR

First McLaren returns home • Readers of this magazine will be familiar with the ‘Zerex Special’, the Holy Grail of McLaren’s early years. Now the original car has been uncovered and shipped back to Britain

Is F1 about to take a Spa break?

Cotswold Britannia looks as good as new after a call for volunteers

Lamborghini reaches for the stars with new Urus at Pikes Peak

MATTERS of MOMENT

Hold your Prancing Horses, Bizzarrini’s back...

The colour of money

Rodin’s “no limits” FZero to arrive in summer 2023

“Vettel had no idea that his news would be dwarfed by the events it triggered”

“For Marc Márquez this latest operation is his last roll of the dice”

“The Cooper-Zerex is frontline road racing’s greatest ‘transformer’”

“The Aston Martin tagline is now ‘Intensity. Driven’. I wish they’d left it alone”

TRACKSIDE VIEW • After Ferrari’s fast start, who would have bet that Verstappen would hold an 80-point lead heading into the summer break? Can anybody stop the rampant Bull?

Leclerc’s pain boosts Verstappen’s gain • Another double of doom for Ferrari gives rise to Red Bull’s now-mammoth championship advantage. Mark Hughes recaps

The purpose to prevent the porpoise

Ferrari in the cooler • Race strategy is crucial – as long as you have the pace. The Ferraris were blistering when the Hungarian heat was on, but come a cool race day it all changed, as Mark Hughes relates

Setting a smoking lap • Extraordinary tales from the Motor Sport digital archive

Good month, bad month

Crossing the tunnel channels • Red Bull and Ferrari are fencing for position – but the fencing is only visible when an errant car is rescued. Mark Hughes explains

“Fernando Alonso’s decision will have shocked Alpine, as it did everyone. The team expected him to stay”

Come fly with me, let’s fly away • Pop the Bentayga brochure in the recycling pile. As Andrew Frankel reveals, the new Aston Martin DBX707 soars above the rest

Give us the clever bits! • Citroën’s lumbering crossover fails to recapture past glories

Credit where it’s due • Electric Fiat 500 is a brilliantly executed small city runaround

Slim pickings • Step aside Piaget and Bulgari – Richard Mille now holds the record for world’s thinnest mechanical watch with its RM UP-01

Night fever • F1 returns to the floodlit streets of Singapore after a two-year hiatus. With its 23 turns, a pole could make all the difference

An Alfa Romeo continuation • If you thought previous accounts of the 8C were definitive, then think again, writes Gordon Cruickshank. It’s an evolving story

GT40 UNCOVERED

BUGATTI IN DENMARK

Heart and console • The game that topped the charts on release, bringing the new generation of F1 racing to your home, falls short in some areas

Vern Schuppan • From co-driving a 956 to Le Mans victory and helping Adelaide get its own F1 GP, to the perils of supercar projects. This Aussie adventurer expounds on precious moments and big characters

MY Greatest RIVAL • What started with a shunt at a Barnsley karting track became an ongoing locking...