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

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 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

Adrian Newey a team boss? That really was not on anyone’s bingo card. Ever. But it came to pass on the eve of the Qatar Grand Prix as Aston Martin announced that team CEO Andy Cowell was stepping away

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

The season ended rapid-fire on consecutive weekends and amid those shots a new world champion was crowned. In Vegas Max Verstappen re-lit the dying embers of his title challenge with a victory around