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📝 Motor Sport magazine
Peter Wright, F1’s godfather of ground effect and active suspension, has died aged 79.
The technological innovator also brought in huge safety improvements to motor sport: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3J...
GF (who’s a pro-ceramicist) selling the wares in @CopelandParkSE - come down if you’re in South-East London today!
#ceramics #pottery
Remembering Justin, born OTD 1978.
📸: Clive Rose/Getty Images
A very happy birthday to Nigel Mansell!
There's no-one quite like 'Our Nige' 💙❤️
Il Leone roared from 12th on the grid to win the 1989 Hungarian GP OTD.
What a drive – image by Paul-Henri Cahier / Getty Images.
Many happy returns to Divina Galica, the trailblazing Olympic skier who became one of the few women to enter an #F1 race.
Earlier this year, @thebishf1.bsky.social heard her incredible story of a life led at top speed: go.motorsportmagazine.com/46...
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Cars with more power than grip and top F1 drivers made the M1 Procar series very special.
For many, it provided the best one-make racing ever seen, as Alan Henry remembers in today's Great Read: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3J...
The inimitable Enzo Ferrari – a man who changed motor sport forever – died OTD in 1988.
📸: Bernard Cahier / Getty Images
A very happy birthday to the brilliant Jackie Oliver.
Guess the race captured in this image!
F1 and sports car ace Jackie Oliver is 82 today!
In this month's mag, he gets behind of his old Lola T70 (which was also Steve McQueen's stunt car) – click through for our sensational gallery: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3J...
Hannu Mikkola's fearsome Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 is going under the hammer this weekend.
It could be yours – if you've got a few of million spare, of course: go.motorsportmagazine.com/45...
Wedding (not ours)
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Looking forward to the big auto race at the world's greatest race track today!
📸: Penske Entertainment – Joe Skibinski
🖤🥲
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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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