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

Blast from the past • Goodwood Revival paid its respects before the Queen’s funeral – but on track there was a full programme of races featuring a star cast of classic cars, drivers... and aliens

Britain’s oldest chargers to do Brighton run

Audi beats Porsche to the punch

MotoGP signs up with the Saudis

A century of speed marked at Monza

Van Diemen returns ahead of 50th anniversary

Will Power shoots down ‘Young Guns’

MARK HUGHES

MAT OXLEY

DOUG NYE

ANDREW FRANKEL

Verstappen enters a league of his own

Taking the hard way • Mercedes was closer than it has been all season in Zandvoort, helped on by a slick strategy on the unloved hard-compound tyres. Mark Hughes explains what Red Bull might have missed

The fearless Manfred Winkelhock

Good month, bad month

Red Bull gives you wings

JOHNNY HERBERT

A ride that ’s all sixes and Sevens

Benz that has to shine

Bland on the run

The long and winding off-road

Cometh the hours

Norbert Singer’s greatest song

Inside line on the ’Ring

Scott Dixon • The long-serving six-time IndyCar champion on his desire to equal AJ Foyt’s tally, ‘reversing’ into Dario Franchitti and why there’s more to an oval track than meets the eye

MY Greatest RIVAL • They were both BMW drivers in the World Touring Car Championship but the nippy Brazilian was hired to topple the dominant Brit. Game on!

Flashback... • For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we’re alongside Denny Hulme and Brian Hart as they reminisce in 1986

LETTERS

HUNT • He was Formula 1 world champion in 1976, but was James Hunt a more accomplished driver the following year? Damien Smith dives into the ’77 season and gathers evidence to show that our British hero was still firing on all cylinders even if his cars weren’t

James THE MAN • The tabloids painted a portrait of a playboy, but what was James Hunt really like? Rob Widdows speaks to those who knew him and trawls his interview archive for the full picture

STAR TURN • On Whit Monday 1962 Mallory Park attracted the finest F1 teams and drivers for the lucrative International 2000 Guineas race. Sixty years on, Simon Arron is at the anniversary reunion to submerse in a cacophony of Climax power units

MEET THEF 1 SCIENTIST • The out-of-this-world thinking of engineer Robin Tuluie has given the edge to teams on two and four wheels. Jack Phillips meets the PhysicsX problem-solver to discuss radical innovations in motor racing

THE REAL DRIVE TO SURVIVE • Was Chris Amon Formula 1’s most unfortunate competitor? Mike Doodson recalls chaotic times with the F1 great who, despite a lack of world championship GP wins, considered himself one of the lucky ones

The race not to be last • There’s only ever been one Ferrari Dino 246 GT in the Le Mans 24 Hours – and it didn’t do well. Fifty years on, Andrew Frankel tells the story of the NART have-a-goers and races a recreation

WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? • It was supposed to be the deal of the century that...