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The CART season that had it all

What makes a racing season compelling? A tense and close championship battle? Diverse competition between chassis, engine and tyre manufacturers? Would it include 900bhp cars and old-school circuits, with no SAFER Barriers or HANS Device and an...

A title decider and our Top 50 drivers

Who would have thought, after the first few Formula 1 races of 2025, that the championship battle would go down to the 24th and final grand prix of the season? Not many, but this roller coaster campaign carried Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar...

F1 2025’s other star: George Russell

There is a school of thought that George Russell earned his promotion to Mercedes at precisely the wrong time, for it coincided with that team’s plunge from frontrunner to also-ran in the new ground-effect era. That’s one way of looking at it; another...

Silverstone BTCC debrief

Such are the sporting regulations in the British Touring Car Championship that the series is well-stocked with cameo starring roles. And it was Dan Lloyd and Sam Osborne who stepped forward at Silverstone’s penultimate round to bask in the...

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ON NORRIS, MCLAREN AND THE F1 CROWN

From the archive: 2003 Austrian GP

Michael Schumacher remains perfectly calm in the cockpit of his Ferrari as a flash fire breaks out during refuelling at the 2003 Austrian Grand Prix. “I was watching what was going on and saw the fire wasn’t nice,” he noted, “but I felt the guys...

Marcus Pye’s Autosport memories

This month I started my 49th year of writing for Autosport, a journey that has spanned 13 editors, 21 Formula 1 world champions, 11 British prime ministers and two monarchs. I joined on 18 July 1977, from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Gregor...

From the archive: 1968 Belgian GP

Spectators at Spa’s La Source hairpin would have been aware as early as lap four of the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix that the V12 engine in Jacky Ickx’s Ferrari 312 wasn’t enjoying the benefit of its full complement of cylinders. The 23-year-old had...

Indianapolis 500 special debrief

Alex Palou’s magical 2025 season continued to roll along with a confident victory for Chip Ganassi Racing in the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500. Already a three-time champion in the Indycar Series, the Spaniard’s fifth triumph in six starts this...

From the archive: 1987 Austrian GP

The Mclaren of Stefan Johansson is engulfed by sparks erupting in the wake of Andrea de Cesaris’s Brabham during the 1987 Austrian Grand Prix. At least this dramatic-looking encounter was harmless, unlike in Friday practice when Johansson, cresting the...

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Pit + Paddock

Oliver Rowland stamped his authority on the Formula E season by taking a healthy 17-point lead in the standings after the latest round in Saudi Arabia, which almost yielded a double success for the Briton. Nissan driver Rowland came away from the...

From the archive: 1996 Brazilian GP

From the archive: 1968 Spanish GP

Brian Redman and Ludovico Scarfiotti may have set the slowest representative qualifying times for the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix, but the Cooper-brm pair made it to third and fourth by the end of the race. The first European event of the Formula 1 world...

Top 50 ranking and our bumper Christmas special

What a season of motorsport we’ve had. The Formula 1 campaign turned out to be much closer and more interesting than expected, we got a new World Rally champion, titles shared in the burgeoning World Endurance Championship, and plenty of good racing –...

Evans wins sensational Formula E opener

Verstappen nails it once more

Not for the first time in the 2024 Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen won a grand prix that his Red Bull probably shouldn’t have done last weekend. Lando Norris’s Mclaren was the fastest car around the Losail circuit but Verstappen got the job done in...

Two champions crowned at the pinnacle of motorsport

Congratulations to Max Verstappen on becoming a four-time Formula 1 world champion. It’s been an up-and-down season for the Dutchman and Red Bull, but it’s hard to argue that the crown has gone to the wrong driver. Even if Lando Norris wins the final...

Can Bearman make his F1 mark with Haas in 2025?

Haas and Ollie Bearman have been two of the surprise packages of 2024. The American Formula 1 squad has bounced back from a dismal campaign last season to be a strong contender in the midfield, while former Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award finalist...

Has Hamilton pulled off another career masterstroke?

When Lewis Hamilton announced his switch from Mercedes to Ferrari for 2025, it seemed like a good idea for everyone except the seven-time world champion. It was great for Formula 1, fantastic for Autosport as interest skyrocketed, and a coup for the...

Porsche and Toyota share World Endurance titles

A little bit of F1 class amid more disappointing conduct

They say the best form of defence is attack and Max Verstappen seems to be a proponent of the idea. After getting away with his particular brand of ‘racing’ in the United States Grand Prix and triggering debate and changes to Formula 1’s guidelines...

Ferrari dominates latest F1 farce

Brilliant Leclerc leads 1-2 but Verstappen-norris controversy strikes again

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The best of the BTCC show how it should be done

Absolute class. In the past, the British Touring Car Championship had built a reputation for overly aggressive driving and shunts, but the title-deciding battle between Jake Hill and Tom Ingram at Brands Hatch last weekend was a great example for the...

Celebrating a special success with two legends of the 1970s Kevin Turner Chief Editor

Winning the Formula 1 world championship and the Indianapolis 500 are two of the biggest achievements in motorsport and only a handful of teams and drivers have managed both. Just two constructors have taken those successes at the top of the...

Lando dominates but Max does what he needs to do

It was hard to decide on the angle for this week’s Autosport cover. On the one hand, Lando Norris put in one of the most dominant non-red Bull Formula 1 performances we’ve seen for a long time in the Singapore Grand Prix (see page 14). But, on the...

New star stamps his authority as Mclaren moves ahead

If anyone had still been in any doubt that Oscar Piastri is the real deal, they must surely have revised their view following last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. As Jake Boxall-legge shows in our report on page 16, the Australian defied a team...

Goodwood’s greatest?

‘From the second I drove the TVR I fell in love with it’

A great day for Ferrari and a revealing one for Mclaren

Even for non-ferrari fans, a victory for the legendary team in the Italian Grand Prix is special. While we’ll have to see whether the SF-24’S latest upgrades have truly put it back in the frontrunning frame on more conventional circuits, the Monza...

Are Norris, Mclaren and F1 starting to believe?

Since Zandvoort returned to the Formula 1 schedule in 2021, Max Verstappen’s domination on home soil had been complete until last weekend: three poles and three wins. But, as we’ve started to expect in 2024, Lando Norris and Mclaren made things...

The cars and people that helped form the Senna legend

Much has been written, said and celebrated about Ayrton Senna’s career. Thirty years after the three-time world champion’s death at Imola, tributes and displays have been taking place around the world during 2024 and this weekend’s Silverstone Festival...

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Who passes with flying colours, and who needs a resit?

Another surprisingly good F1 race, shame about the afters

It’s always disappointing when drivers lose victories through no fault of their own. George Russell’s inspired call to switch to a one-stopper at last weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix appeared to have earned him a surprise victory against team-mate Lewis...

A seventh 2024 winner as F1 delivers another cracker

Another great race and another new grand prix victor. The 2024 Formula 1 season is certainly turning out to be more interesting than anyone expected. We haven’t had this number of different winners since that remarkable 2012 campaign! Last weekend’s...

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Aston Martin wins Spa 24 Hours