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Bottom 10 MOT Bounders

Jan 8, 2025 | jamesruppert.substack.com | Denis Jenkinson |Peter Verstappen |James Ruppert

From time to time I do get involved with an outfit (DataNews Ltd) that does some freedom of information requests with our mates down at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. For all sorts of reasons that have delayed it’s appearance (should have arrived in 2024) here are the stats that relate to a full year of MOTs for 2023. Now ancient history I know, but as you will learn, still incredibly relevant to what’s going on right now. Seems a shame to waste this information, so here it is.
Every F1 US GP circuit ranked: From flattened goat track to the fabulous

Oct 22, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson |Damien Smith |Adam Cooper

This week, to coincide with the fallout from the 2024 United States Grand Prix, I had intended to write about, and rank, the 12 circuits that have hosted world championship-status Formula 1 grands prix in the land of the free since the inauguration of the F1 world championship in 1950, and I still will: indeed you are beginning to read that very column. But first I will make a more topical point about Circuit of the Americas, which hosted Sunday’s race.
Jim Clark's 1963 Diary: a year to savour

Sep 6, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson |Michael Tee |Paul Fearnley

1963The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet Scottish hill farmer delivered on all the promise that had been so smack-in-the-face obvious to lovers of motor racing in the three seasons past. Fifty years ago, Jim Clark embarked on a run of success that would confirm him as the greatest racing driver in the world, perhaps the greatest we’d yet seen – or would ever see. These were indeed halcyon days. No wonder.
Why Zeltweg is the best and worst circuit to ever host an F1 race

Aug 20, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson |Nigel Roebuck |Matt Bishop

Which is the best circuit ever to have staged a world championship-status Formula 1 grand prix? Zeltweg. And the worst? Zeltweg, too. Confused? OK, let me explain. There have been 37 world championship-status F1 Austrian Grands Prix, all of them held at Zeltweg, near Spielberg.
Motor Sport's Cover of the Century revealed

Jul 16, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson |Shayni Solanki

Moss and Jenks were competing in a Mercedes 300SL for the works team, with the journalist providing pace notes via his home-made roller device. The treacherous route was often the scene of racing fatalities – two drivers and one spectator died in the ’55 edition – not that it deterred Moss and Jenks. “Moss was driving absolutely magnificently, right on the limit of adhesion all the time, and more often than not over the limit,” the latter wrote.
How Jim Clark and Lotus won out at the Indianapolis 500

May 12, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson

He was the face of the radical movement that changed open-wheel racing in the USA forever, and yet he did it with a style and a grace that disarmed his opposition rather than bludgeoned them. He made five starts in the Indianapolis 500 and, with a little luck, could have easily won four of them. His slight frame and reserved demeanour belied the fact he went for the jugular every time he put on the goggles.
Black Sunday: 1994 San Marino Grand Prix race report

May 8, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson

The death of Ayrton Senna, following so closely on that of Roland Ratzenberger in qualifying the previous day stunned the Formula One fraternity in Imola, in precisely the way that Jim Clark’s at Hockenheim in 1968 did. At the end of the most traumatic weekend in Grand Prix racing’s history since Spa in 1960, shattered teams packed away their equipment, still barely able to comprehend the enormity of the tragedies that had befallen them on a weekend that had initially promised so much.
The Lake Garda circuit - racing's most beautiful track?

Mar 20, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson |Tim Scott |David Malsher |Matthew Franey

The most beautiful racing circuit in the world — that was the standard boast. Subjective in the extreme, for sure, but standing atop the valley slopes that tumble to the shores of Lake Garda, which glints cool blue below, we can see that the Brescian sporting authorities had a case. From the cobbled streets of the picture-postcard villages to the scented lemon and olive groves set off cypress-lined country roads, the scene is a visual aria for Italy: the Garda of Eden.
Track test at Zandvoort: 'A circuit where raw talent beat horsepower'

Mar 20, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Matt Bishop |Denis Jenkinson |Andrew Frankel |Paul Fearnley

You’ll need a full day at the wheel to drive from London to Zandvoort even with the tunnel and the continuous thread of motorway that now lies between Calais and the Belgian border. It’s not, to be honest, one of the great drives.
Track test at Zandvoort: 'A circuit where raw talent beat horsepower'

Mar 20, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Matt Bishop |Denis Jenkinson |Andrew Frankel |Paul Fearnley

You’ll need a full day at the wheel to drive from London to Zandvoort even with the tunnel and the continuous thread of motorway that now lies between Calais and the Belgian border. It’s not, to be honest, one of the great drives.