This week in... 1982

• Dudley almost wins fairytale TT • ...

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

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF V6 TURBOS Those of a certain vintage may lament that the Red Bull Ring succeeded the fast and flowing Osterreichring stapled to the Styrian foothills, but the Aus

Graham Keilloh looks at images capturing the drama and – sometimes – controversy of this decade

David Addison is your guide to the changing motorsport landscape in the late 1970s and into the 1980s as the battles raged across the globe

It was a decade of British success across a turbulent landscape. Matt James picks out some highlights