Damien smith

The great engineer Dr Harvey Postlethwaite used to tell people that, when working at Ferrari during the 1980s, he evolved a coping strategy for the inevitable, tawdry and tedious internal politics of

Hamilton knows things can’t get much worse ► ...

The surface colours of the season constantly changed but the background of its canvas was always papaya as McLaren delivered a formidable weapon for its drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri; the unv

The first week of a new year and already the motorsport season is in full swing. By the time you read this, 325 cars, motorcycles and trucks will be wheel-deep in the sand dunes of Saudi Arabia for th

Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in

I DIDN’T START watching motorsport until the late ’80s. It was mainly Formula 1 and Moto GP. I’ve done some competitive driving but only at a junior level. I did some karting, and whenever there have