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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye |Paul Fearnley |Matt Bishop
Gamston, Cadours and Caen: Matt Bishop looks back on when non-championship F1 races were a significant part of the motor sport calendar In Sydney, Australia, a few days ago, Sébastien Loeb won the Race of Champions; in Melbourne, Australia, in a few days’ time, another motor sport legend will win the Australian Grand Prix. I do not know who that will be, and neither do you, but, like you, I am very much looking forward to finding out.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye
As we motor into another winter three variably thought-provoking anniversaries beckon. Seventy-five years ago, on December 15, 1949, a group of national and specialist motoring journalists gathered in rural Lincolnshire for the public unveiling of Great Britain’s eagerly awaited ‘world-beating’ Grand Prix car – the BRM Type 15 V16-cylinder. It was held in a draughty, leaky Maycrete hut, high on the cold and bleak Folkingham aerodrome.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye
Doug Nye’s fascination with Tyrrell goes back to his childhood On the soggy Sunday morning at the Goodwood Revival meeting one of my earliest memories flashed back to me. It was around 1948-49, when tiny me was raised from bed by my mum to look out the window. Against an inky sky brilliant searchlight beams were sweeping from some point beyond the house roof opposite. We lived in Guildford, Surrey. Mum explained the beams were “just like the war”. Next day I asked where they’d come from.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Andrew Frankel |Doug Nye
Just imagine for a moment that it’s the spring of 1962. The telephone rings and your friend and employer on the other end asks you to fly to Italy and make your way to Maranello, where you are to collect a brand new Ferrari 250GTO and drive it home. Across the Alps. Then think about that journey – a thousand miles in the company of Giaoacchino Colombo’s finest engine, Giotto Bizzarrini’s greatest design and Enzo Ferrari’s masterpiece.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye
It’s been a busy month. But in between the usual bouts of frenzied research and writing, a day spent haring around Goodwood in assorted Caterham Sevens with the company’s chief instructor Alex Read and his team provided wonderful escape…After blazing around the familiar old circuit with my little remaining hair on fire, being urged by the team’s demonstrably nerveless young experts “Aim straight at the middle board! Max brakes! Off! Turn in now! Power!!!”, I wanted to watch a true pro at work.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Andrew Frankel |Doug Nye |Sam Hancock |Dickie Meaden
A back of the grid to victory drive, a front-engined icon humbling rear-engined Formula 1 machinery, Daytona Cobras racing to the line side-by-side and a sensational parade of Ayrton Senna’s cars were just a few of the highlights of this year’s Silverstone Festival. The 2023 edition – although most people still seem to call it the Classic – celebrated 75 years of Silverstone and set the bar very high. What would the organisers come up with this year to improve on that?
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Dominic Tobin |Doug Nye |James Elson
It sounds like something out of a George Lucas film, the ‘Lost Ark‘ of the road – stacks of priceless cars, one on top of the other, gathering rust and dust with the real treasures glowing at the centre, some of the most desirable automobiles ever (or more recently, never) seen. But it’s real. The ultimate vintage car treasure trove – Rudi Klein’s mythical ‘Junkyard’ collection, which has lain dormant for 20 years – is now going up for auction.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye
Talking with several of the Historic racing world’s leading restorers and preparers has highlighted a relatively recent concern. I was asked “How can we find good young staff for the future? Advertising has failed completely…” – then “How do you find capable kids who want to get into specialist old-style engineering like ours? Interest in our kind of cars seems to be dying”. I have something of a vested interest here. Back in 1963 I was a racing-mad 17-year-old.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye
Shall I do it? I’ve thought about it for quite a while. It is annoying. Yes, it’s Grumpy Old Man time. Are any readers as heartily sick of hearing “Box – box – box!”, or “He’s running P3”, or “There’s a chance of P1”, or “in quali” pronounced ‘kwally’, or “At Turn 5”, or “In Turn 1”…as I am? Changing times – changing generations of fans and enthusiasts (who are of course often different animals), but changing jargon – well – just stokes one’s pressure pump.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye
A generation of Motor Sport readers saw racing through the eyes of Denis Jenkinson: our legendary continental correspondent On this magazine’s centenary may I muse upon one half of the editorial duo who built its reputation postwar; ‘W.B.’ – the renowned William ‘Bill’ Boddy – and his sometime friend/rival ‘D.S.J.’ – Denis ‘Jenks’ Jenkinson. What a remarkably eccentric duo they were.
