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A champion of the future, a champion of the past: Motor Sport salutes Lewis Hamilton’s glorious summer in the September issue, on sale now – and also brings you an exclusive with ‘Il Leone’ himself, Nigel Mansell, who could be gearing up for that well-worn comeback trail once again. He just can’t leave it alone, can he?
Hamilton returned to form after disappointment and embarrassment in Canada and France, with one of the great wet-weather Formula 1 victories at Silverstone, then backed that up with a beautifully taken win at Hockenheim. In between the two races he found time to steal the show at the Goodwood Festival of Speed as the partisan crowd showed their support for Britain’s biggest sporting hero. Thus, he graces Motor Sport’s cover for the second time this year, as Nigel Roebuck reflects on Silverstone and Hockenheim, and the rest of the team bring you the highlights from another glorious Goodwood.
As for Mansell, we shuffled some pages to make room for this story as Rob Widdows headed off to Portugal as the only journalist invited to watch the 1992 World Champion sample a Lola LMP1 sports prototype. As you can read, Mansell is playing down the significance of the test, which he shared with his son Leo. But it was very evident that the two-day Estoril trial was not just for fun. That’s not Mansell’s way. Could a sports car programme for a father-and-son team be on the cards? We reckon…
Elsewhere in the issue Nigel Roebuck pays tribute to a childhood hero, Peter Collins; Simon Taylor enjoys a rare lunch interview with Lola founder Eric Broadley (joined by current chairman Martin Birrane); Gordon Kirby celebrates the 40th anniversary of Formula 5000 in the US; and Andrew Frankel brings us news of Gordon Murray’s latest design revolution. As ever, an eclectic mix.
If you popped by our stand at Goodwood to say hello, it was good to see you. If you missed us, please do come and find us at the Revival meeting next month. We’ll be there in force.
Enjoy the issue.
Motor Sport is offering the chance of a lifetime with an opportunity to win hotels, flights and grandstand tickets for the Italian Grand Prix on September 14 2008.
The itinery, based on two people sharing, will be as follows:
Friday 12th September
Depart London Heathrow for your flight to Milan Linate with…
After the excitements of the British and German Grands Prix, the Hungarian GP got off to a comparatively sedate start. Indeed a very quiet start when you look back to this time last year when Alonso decided he had had enough of the way McLaren was treating him and went…
Yesterday there was a story on the front page of The Sun about a wealthy Sheikh who jetted his Lamborghini LP640 from Qatar to Britain for an oil change. Apparently the 6,428-mile round trip cost in the region of £20,000 (there’s something vaguely ironic about a car being shipped from…
Jacques Villeneuve will try to kick-start his stalled attempt at breaking into NASCAR this weekend. The former F1 world champion, CART champion and Indy 500 winner hasn’t raced in NASCAR since crashing-out of the Daytona 500 in February, but Jacques returns to stock car racing this weekend at the wheel…
Talking to Emerson Fittipaldi is never less than interesting.
Alistair Caldwell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Teddy Mayer.
We didn’t see much of him immediately after he retired, Emerson preferring to spend time in Brazil. He would appear at events like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but otherwise the chance to have a…
A country club driving resort for the high-end motoring enthusiast. That’s the concept behind the Monticello Motor Club’s 4.1-mile road circuit located in upstate New York about an hour and half drive from mid-town Manhattan. The grand opening of the Monticello Motor Club’s brand new track took place last Sunday…
The launch of the new A1GP car-powered-by-Ferrari – we must not call it an A1GP-Ferrari – is a reminder of just how much the Italians love their motor racing.
We are in Tuscany, at the circuit of Mugello-owned-by-Ferrari. This is Ferrari country, the Scuderia’s headquarters at Modena just an hour up…
To some degree, it was a risky strategy, but in the end it worked out to perfection, and Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix, thus becoming the first driver to win two on the trot in 2008.
“I’d have preferred it to be straightforward,” Hamilton smiled afterwards, “but it didn’t…
I enjoyed a couple of very pleasant days last weekend at Lime Rock in North-western Connecticut. Lime Rock is the only remaining serious road course in New England or the North-eastern corner of the United States. Opened in 1957, the challenging little 1.5-mile circuit was at its height through the…
I have been on a secret mission. I feel a little like Tintin, travelling unexpectedly into unfamiliar territory again, briefed to separate the fact from the fiction. Unlike Tintin, I have no help from the resourceful Captain Haddock.
Anyway, my cover has been blown, the secret is out. Another well known…
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