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.

“Changing to become more inclusive is not a threat but an opportunity”

“Exceptional” Max makes it a double • Verstappen’s domination doesn’t match Michael Schumacher in 2002 – but he’s chasing the record win total for a season

Sky ties up F1 broadcast deal until 2029

Rovanperä leaps into the WRC record book

Lotus 72 reunion commemorates Emerson’s F1 title

Goodwood gears up for a busy ’23

The ultimate Gran Turismo collection up for grabs

“Life is good” for Andretti after dream F1 drive

“Although the breach of F1’s cost cap is ‘minor’, it could still be up to £6.5m”

“Working with the Red Bull F1 guys is about merging our know-how”

“My earliest memory of the Le Mans 24 Hours is smuggling a radio to bed”

“To see one McLaren F1 is a vanishingly rare experience. But a dozen?”

TRACKSIDE VIEW • Max Verstappen’s utter dominance of the 2022 season saw him claim the world title with four races still to come, even if, as ever, the FIA didn’t make things simple...

Bull charges on in Asia • A switch in continents, a return to Marina Bay and even a deluge couldn’t halt Max Verstappen. Mark Hughes reports

Gasly’s horror at Suzuka near miss • Eight years on from Formula 1’s last grand prix tragedy, we had an unwelcome, and uncomfortable, reminder in Japan

Word on the beat

Not-so-slick strategy • Two wet-weather grands prix in Asia forced teams to adapt on the fly, making a change from the usual tyre deg strategies we’ve seen this year. Mark Hughes explains what happened

Good month, bad month

The faster Rodriguez brother?

It’s not what you see… • …It’s what’s underneath that counts. Mark Hughes explains why bottom tweaks can be more cost-effective than a nose job

“I didn’t expect to be the one who broke the news to Verstappen that he was a two-time F1 world champion”

Downforce to be reckoned with • Porsche has focused on aero to squeeze more from its 911 GT3 RS. Andrew Frankel takes to the track to see what this means

The ascent of van

China is up for the cup

Let the best man win • Still feeling the anguish of 2021’s made-for-TV Abu Dhabi Grand Prix? Lewis Hamilton has unf inished business here

Let’s start at the very beginning • For a car that only raced twice, Porsche’s pioneering 956 is still fully deserving of its own biography, says Damien Smith

You couldn’t make it up • The memoirs of motoring writer and racing commentator Andrew Marriott reveal that, just possibly, journalism used to be more fun

Jenson Button • The 2009 F1 champion rarely ducks a challenge, which is why his CV includes rallycross, car development and punditr y. As he tells us, there are still some invitations he’d find hard to turn down

MY GREATEST RIVAL • Although both graced the same F1 grid on a handful of occasions, it’s the wheel-to-wheel combat and Antipodean choice of words in F3 in ’73 that bring a smile to the British driver’s face

Flashback... • For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we are at the 1988 Mexican GP following a near-disaster in...