299: olympic special

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I WAS A GREAT many ...

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

In the early 1890s a young Victor Goddet was working at the Vélodrome de l’Est, Paris. Every day a twenty-something rider arrived and every day Goddet studiously checked his pass. One day the rider qu

This year’s British Grand Prix marks the 75th anniversary of the first Formula 1 World championship race, which was held at Silverstone in May 1950. Paul Lawrence looks back

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham