Under the hood

It’s unusual that a technical controversy should arise in Formula 1 before the concept has even been raced but that’s what happened during the off-season with the revelation that Mercedes had found a

Despite 140 years of development, some bike engines still consume the very stuff that’s there to protect them. Professor Jamie Turner explains why

Ford Motor Company exists because of motorsport. In 1901, Henry Ford took part in his only race, a 10-mile contest against Alexander Winton in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in a self-built 26hp car called

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

FEW CHANGES TO grand prix racing’s technical rules have provoked such widespread negativity as the 2026 formula. Perhaps only the shift to 1.5-litre engines in 1961 was as widely reviled by the partic

Just 30 years ago, diesel cars were a bit rubbish. They were loud, clattery, vibrating, smelly and usually appallingly slow. But politicians thought they were the bee’s knees, because they were margin