Motor Sport Magazine

A century ago, The Brooklands Gazette was launched by an enterprising publisher, dedicated to covering the best of the burgeoning world of motor racing. The magazine was soon renamed Motor Sport and now, 100 years on, continues to flourish as an independent, free-speaking voice for racing fans worldwide. As we celebrate the momentous year in 2024, we will feature the latest articles and podcasts that look back over a century of racing; the ways that you can get involved; and some of the best writing from the magazine’s history.

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OPENING SHOT MATTERS OF MOMENT

F1 frontline • Lewis Hamilton departs Mercedes after a misfiring season. Is age the problem, or is it the cars themselves? MARK HUGHES reveals all

F1 insider • From bouncing up and down in Baku to cheering Lewis home at Silverstone, KARUN CHANDHOK re-lives his top moments of ’24

DAMIEN SMITH’S… Drive OF THE month • Each issue, we nominate a driver from a recent race who deserves recognition for a job well done. This month we’re in the Middle East to witness nerves of steel in F1 Academy

Top 5… Belgian WRC drivers • The nation that gave us Jacky Ickx, Thierry Boutsen and Olivier Gendebien now has its first WRC champion. So bobble hats on and let’s check out who else made the list

There’s the Type 00… or is this more your thing?

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YOUR TOP EVENTS THIS MONTH

Corolla coaster • From the forests of Yorkshire to the mountains of New Zealand, Tony Jardine recounts his recent historic-racing high points

POSTCARD FROM America • JOHN OREOVICZ on NASCAR’s love of a ‘walk-off’ moment, the tech giving hope to disabled racers and predictions for Cadillac in F1

A life in six parts • New Netflix series Senna takes us from Ayrton’s kart beginning up to his 1994 death. James Elson is in charge of the remote

THE COLLECTOR • The ageing process

Rumblings • With Jaguar’s racing heritage, DOUG NYE had a soft spot for the marque but its recent re-branding exercise has crossed the line

From the archives… • After the 1968 Targa Florio Denis Jenkinson is hurtling homewards when a pair of mysterious Porsches appear on his tail with Stuttgart plates

First watch on the moon • The reprised Omega Speedmaster Calibre 321 is a throwback to the space race but it has motoring roots

Motorbikes • MotoGP has a new champion – Jorge Martin. MAT OXLEY lauds the Spaniard whose riding technique is sheer performance art

Road cars • So Jaguar has revealed its new colours. As ANDREW FRANKEL explains, the hard work now begins – with a car to match Bentley

New M5 has big shoes to fill • Having driven all previous iterations of this BMW, Andrew Frankel decides that we had it better in the 1980s and 2010s

Formula E • History repeated at São Paulo as Jaguar’s Mitch Evans ‘did a Max’ to win the first race – as team principal JAMES BARCLAY reveals

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LETTERS

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Top 10 DRIVERS OF THE YEAR • Forget about the official F1 drivers’ championship for now. Here, Karun Chandhok gives a detailed analysis of which racers rose to the challenge in 2024 and places them in his order of performance. And if you’re looking for Sergio Pérez… you’ll be disappointed

THE CHAMPION MAX • It’s a fourth-consecutive Formula 1 world title for Verstappen but in 2024 he faced challenges both on track and off it. Mark Hughes argues that this was a season that brought the best out of the best

The season’s unsung heroes • Adam Cooper gives credit to the characters in the Formula 1 paddock whose achievements in 2024 have gone under the radar

Let’s call it a night...