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‘Who are the French guys who can win the Tour this year? It’s a subject that’s served at the table every July,’ says Romain Bardet, whose second place in 2016 is the closest a Frenchman has come to br

Cyclist: What are your earliest memories of the Tour? Serge Laget: I first discovered the Tour in my village of Langogne in the Cévennes in 1954, when I was seven. I remember as if it were yesterday.

No one has ever managed to win Le Mans single-handedly, but in the early ’50s one man nearly did. Pierre Levegh, who 70 years ago this month was killed at the La Sarthe disaster along with 83 spectato

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Built on a man-made island originally terraformed for Montreal’s Expo 67, the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve sits perched in the St Lawrence River, surrounded by breezy parkland teemi

Eighty years before Britain celebrated its first Tour de France winner, one man set the wheels in motion. Feargal McKay traces the legacy of Bill Mills, a forgotten pioneer

A month or so ago, a 50th anniversary went unnoticed by most followers of Formula One statistics. In the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, Italian Lella Lombardi became the first, and so far the only, woman to