Motorsport

"The Authoritative Voice Of The Sport". That was how Motor Sport used to describe itself when I first started to follow motor racing. Unfortunately, while that might have been true a couple of decades earlier, by the 1980s the once-proud boast had become a sad joke. Betweeen its famous green covers could still be found pearls, such as the utterly biased, highly opinionated yet brilliant prose of Denis Jenkinson - "DSJ" as he signed himself - but they were few and far between in a publication mostly filled with deeply forgettable articles. The magazine relied almost entirely for income on its ... more

Motor Sport magazine has been published since 1924 and specialises in articles on the past history of motor sport particularly but not exclusively Formula 1. There are two particular reasons why the magazine may be of interest to the motorsport enthusiast and both of these relate to the amount of time the magazine has been published. Firstly the magazine has a huge archive of articles which were written at the time of the races or incidents and much of the material from these articles is used in new pieces for the magazine. Profiles of drivers, circuits or races from the last 50 years are ... more