If Formula 1 could be said to follow fashion then the racing style that had largely defined the 1960s – all mod-ish tapered edges, size zero waistlines and perfectly sculpted silhouettes – gave way...
Colin Chapman – The F1 Revolutionary
Ask the man in the street to name a current Formula 1 car designer and you’re unlikely to get an answer. Ask an F1 fan the same question and they might just manage to think of Adrian Newey. But bac...
Max Verstappen - The New F1 World Champion
In achieving the feat, which went down to the very last lap of a record-breaking 22-race season, he became the 34th driver in history to win the title, and the first from the Netherlands. In the pr...
The Detroit Arctic Expedition – a Winter Throwback
An Alaskan Malamute is a huge dog, a supersized Husky, used to haul heavy loads on sleds across snow. But here at Automobilist, we don’t do cute animal posters, not even at Christmas time, so this...
Remembering Sir Frank Williams
Long before it became the fashion – today, you are as likely to be run over by a phalanx of joggers as a race car at the circuit on an F1 weekend – Frank Williams was a fitness fanatic who enjoyed...
This year’s title fight between the holder Lewis Hamilton and the challenger Max Verstappen is one of the most exciting in years, however it’s unlikely to have much effect on the size of the crowd...
24h Le Mans - The 90th Edition
Take a long, dry midsummer day and short balmy night in central France, add a tortuous eight-kilometre track, sprinkle the sinuous black ribbon with 62 hard-charging race cars piloted by 200 ardent...
There are several racing cars over the years that can vie for the title of best or most beautiful or most successful, but if one had to choose the most important Formula 1 car of all time, it would...
The best racing car of the 1950s was actually designed at the end of the thirties and had won plenty of races by the time the first ever Formula 1 World Championship was held. The Alfa Romeo Al...
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