French teams put on a brave face

For the sheer love of racing: that’s what it’s all about for Max Verstappen, who has won another dose of respect by claiming an emphatic victory on his GT3 sports car debut at the greatest, most chall

Max Verstappen’s hopes were not high for his home track of Zandvoort. It’s exactly the sort of medium-speed, long-corner layout which so rewards the McLaren and hurts the Red Bull. What the Red Bull n

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

Audi’s domination of the Le Mans 24 Hours in the first decade or so of the century launched it to second on the all-time winners’ list. And its finest victory came in what Autosport’s long-term sports

Last week’s motorsport fun (I ran Autocar’s electric Renault 5 in a Cornwall sprint) sent me into one of those urgent moods of car desire that stay with you after you’ve had a really good time. Sprint

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w