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Looking forward to the big auto race at the world's greatest race track today!
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"The first person I saw was Ron’s wife, and I thought she must be an angel. Then I saw Ron standing next to her, and I thought, OK, I am not in heaven yet.”
Mika Häkkinen remembers his harrowing near-death F1 crash, and the road back: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3I...
Stirling Moss headed Juan-Manuel Fangio for a sensational Silver Arrows 1-2 at the 1955 British GP OTD.
Read the intriguing story in this month's magazine: go.motorsportmagazine.com/4n...
Worlds apart: When IndyCar took on F1 in the same race – and won.
500 legend Jim Rathmann, born OTD in 1928, saw off F1 competition to win the 'Race of Two Worlds' at Monza in 1958: go.motorsportmagazine.com/46...
Remembering Jules, lost OTD in 2015.
📸: Mark Thompson/Getty Images
John Watson took a fabulous home win at the 1981 British GP OTD.
It was the first victory for the carbon-fibre McLaren MP4/1.
Former McLaren F1 ace David Coulthard told James Elson about his private audience with The Beatles' George Harrison, who played him an unreleased grand prix-themed song about Bernie Ecclestone!
go.motorsportmagazine.com/44...
Absolute scorcher on Finchley Road today
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The Mrs noired me
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“Hot car” Italian job vibes on Finchley Road
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Heinz-Harald Frentzen took a faaantastic French GP win for Jordan OTD in 1999.
Bring back yellow F1 cars?
2025 is F1’s most polite title battle ever, writes James Elson.
go.motorsportmagazine.com/4e...
F1's greatest duel.
OTD at the 1979 French GP, Gilles Villeneuve and Rene Arnoux did battle.
A very happy birthday to Richard Petty.
NASCAR's greatest?
When BMW needed some rapid bodywork, it went to Italy – then plucked the plum Italian prize.
James Mills tries the result in today's Great Read: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3Z...
Simply lovely
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On a call with the lads
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Depressing F1 endorsment
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Yifei Ye is the nicest driver I’ve met - the only one in 5 years as a journo who’s asked me where they can read the interview lol.
So glad he’s become the first Chinese driver to win Le Mans - his life’s ambition: www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/spo...
Off to Le Mans with Les Blues.
Thanks to Alpine for matching it to my refuse arsenal🤌
Plotting shed! 001 was Tyrrell's first effort as a fully-fledged F1 constructor.
We get the inside story of its secret build from Jackie Stewart, who celebrates his 86th birthday today, and its designer Derek Gardner: go.motorsportmagazine.com/4d...
Spoke to the brilliant Tiff Needell about how he led Le Mans in a Group C car conceived by Pink Floyd's manager.
Not bad for an afternoon pub session! www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/spo...
A very happy birthday to Jan Lammers.
The Dutchman’s single-seater career petered out in the wake of much early promise, but he went on to enjoy great success in other spheres – as he remembers in today's Great Read: go.motorsportmagazine.com/43...
Lewis Hamilton took his very first F1 win OTD at the 2007 Canadian GP.
Sensational.
Jean Alesi burst onto the #F1 grid in 1989, the start of what looked to be a glittering career,
But 201 GPs later, writes @thebishf1.bsky.social , he had just one win to his name: the 1995 Canadian GP
go.motorsportmagazine.com/4k...
A very happy birthday to the legend that is Sir Jackie Stewart.
A truly brilliant racing one-off.
From an idea dreamt up in a pub to the #LeMans24
40yrs since an Aston Martin-powered car last headed the race, its driver Tiff Needell remembers the incredible tale
go.motorsportmagazine.com/3H...
Guess the track
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