F1’s nearly man ready for his return

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

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

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

During the summer break, Piastri pointed to Bahrain and Barcelona as two of his best drives; after that, his efforts in Qatar surely stand among them in a hell-for-leather exhibition of directed rage