“niki lauda was a smart operator. if i had 50% of that, maybe i would have won a world title”

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

This year’s British Grand Prix marks the 75th anniversary of the first Formula 1 World championship race, which was held at Silverstone in May 1950. Paul Lawrence looks back

Matt James looks back at some of the stand-out images and moments of the 10-year period

This was a race which has been the subject of debate and argument almost since the flag fell on it. Not that it had been a particularly complex duel on that hot, dry summer afternoon, apart from the o

David Addison is your guide to the changing motorsport landscape in the late 1970s and into the 1980s as the battles raged across the globe

Fairy tales can come true, and the UK experienced a purple patch early on in the century with two home-grown grand prix title winners.