Motor Sport Magazine Specials

The authoritative voice of motor racing since 1924 covers the entire motor racing scene. In these Special Editions, the team digs into the archives to give exclusive insight, rare photographic footage, detailed race reports, and a unique take on the subject matter; from world-class drivers through to iconic car marques, and also how some of these real-life stories have been adapted for the big screen.

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Motor Sport Magazine Specials

JUAN MANUEL FANGIO • Meeting the maestro was an unmissable experience – and subsequently unforgettable for Motor Sport’s future editor-in-chief. It remains a career highlight

ALBERTO ASCARI • It’s been 62 years since an Italian won the F1 World Championship. The last man to do so remains a legend, perhaps the fastest man of his era, as we recalled in 2012

STIRLING MOSS • His motor racing feats were already legendary. But in May 1961 Stirling Moss enjoyed his day of days behind the wheel, as we recalled 50 years later

JACK BRABHAM • The only man to win F1 world titles as both a driver and a constructor was as tough as they come, as his old friend and team-mate Roy Salvadori told us back in 2007

GRAHAM HILL • He won both the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 Hours, but motor racing’s unique triple-crown man would always be most associated with the most glamorous race of them all. Graham Hill was ‘Mr Monaco’ – and he still is

JIM CLARK • For those who knew him, no one will ever match this quiet farmer from the Scottish borders. The best of the 1960s? Undoubtedly. The best ever? There are many who say so

JOHN SURTEES • The only man to win world championships on two and four wheels forged his greatest successes with two Italian powerhouses: MV Agusta and Ferrari. His love of Italy burns as brightly today as it ever did

JACKIE STEWART • Just like Clark and Chapman, Stewart and Tyrrell would become a driver-and-owner partnership that defined an era. The pair were the dominant force of the early 1970s

JOCHEN RINDT • The sport’s only posthumous world champion could have ended up running F1 with his friend Bernie Ecclestone, had he lived beyond Monza 1970. Instead, he is remembered as a charismatic charger whose light shone all too briefly

EMERSON FITTIPALDI • The Brazilian revived South America’s love affair with Formula 1, winning a pair of world championships before conquering the Indy 500. We met him at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

RONNIE PETERSON • ‘SuperSwede’ won 10 Grands Prix, but it was natural talent, style and a warm personality rather than career statistics that marked Peterson out as a hero of the ages

NIKI LAUDA • Michael Schumacher turned Ferrari from an infamous underachiever to a true superpower. Three decades earlier a bucktoothed Austrian pulled the same trick

JAMES HUNT • Now immortalised in the movies, the Englishman will always be associated with his incredible championship season of 1976. His team manager recalls the twists and turns of a landmark F1 season

GILLES VILLENEUVE • The mercurial French-Canadian gained a wild reputation, but one that was actually unfair. Smooth and easy on tyres as well as devastatingly talented, there are myths about Villeneuve that still require debunking today

ALAIN PROST • A four-time world champion, yet destined always to be remembered in the shadow of his nemesis. Understated and subtle in the mould of a Clark or Stewart, he deserves so much more

AYRTON SENNA • The great Brazilian is still idolised by millions more than 20 years after his death. But Ayrton Senna was no saint. As anyone who knew him would attest, he was much more complex than that

NIGEL MANSELL • Back-to-back F1 and Indycar titles were...