The 2023 Phillip Island Classic – Festival of Motorsport will host a number of historic F1 cars from Europe along with nine international drivers competing at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit on 10 – 12 March. Regarded as the largest historic motor race in the Southern Hemisphere, the Phillip...

No, not the words, it’s the images in this brilliantly edited 3-minute Formula 1 "music video” posted last July on Finn Antti Kalhola’s YouTube channel, an emotional image-fest highlighting the 1985 World Championship.The music is British synthwave band Gunship’s haunting “The Mountain” which adds depth to the tightly edited video...

The best couple hundred thousand bucks ever spent in racing? That's got to be Ford's investment in the Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine. Bolted to the beautifully sparse Lotus 49, it made its winning debut in the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix and never looked back.Downtown Motown, June 5, 1983: Milan's...

Germany's Eurospeedway Lausitzring, which played home to Champ Car, the DTM (pictured) and other major racing series, has undergone an ownership change that could alter the future usage of the combined oval and road course.In the announcement of the sale to German safety inspection firm DEKRA, plans to shift the...

A connection between Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen and the wholly unremarkable Walt Disney World Speedway should not exist. But the Dane's link to the old and oft-forgotten Indy Racing League oval is where his incredible career as sports car racing's biggest name got its start. The link is also...

Thirty years ago, I felt I knew almost everything about Formula 1. If you’d flashed a photo of any driver, car or track in front of me for just a single second, I’d accurately identify each and every one. By the end of the 1985 season, I’d memorized the pole...

Berger takes the improbable checkered flag. (LAT archive)At Monaco in 2013 Ron Dennis was reintroduced to Jean-Louis Schlesser, whose single Grand Prix appearance for Williams at Monza 25 years ago changed the course of McLaren's history.Turning to his companion Carol Weatherall, Dennis said: "This is the man who ruined my...