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The Bentley Boys were back, 25 years ago. ⏪In 1930, Bentley won their fifth Hours in only the event's eighth running...
16/06/2026

The Bentley Boys were back, 25 years ago. ⏪

In 1930, Bentley won their fifth Hours in only the event's eighth running, doing so with a confident 1-2; months later, the Great Depression saw the works racing team disbanded and the company itself collapse into receivership. 📉 The marque returned to Le Mans in 2001 after a 71 year absence with the Bentley EXP Speed 8 in a two car effort, and though the number 7 of Martin Brundle, Stéphane Ortelli and Guy Smith suffered a race ending fire, the number 8 finished third overall. 🥉

Drivers Butch Leitzinger, Eric van de Poele and Andy Wallace took to the podium appropriately - in "Bentley Boys" style white suits, goggles and leather racing caps! 🥽

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1. Eric van de Poele on track in the number 8 Bentley EXP Speed 8 shared with Andy Wallace and Butch Leitzinger. 2001 Le Mans 24 Hours. | LAT Images

2. (L to R) Butch Leitzinger, Eric van de Poele and Andy Wallace celebrate on the podium in traditional race wear. 2001 Le Mans 24 Hours. | Clive Rose/LAT Images

3. Andy Wallace stands in front of the Bentley EXP Speed 8, which is flanked by two vintage Bentleys, including a 1930 Speed Six. Bentley Le Mans Test, Snetterton, April 2001. | Clive Rose/LAT Images

4. The number 7 Bentley EXP Speed 8 of Martin Brundle, Stephane Ortelli and Guy Smith kicks up spray under the Dunlop Bridge. 2001 Le Mans 24 Hours. | James Bearne/Sutton Images

Something about the number four? 😲 With his win at the 2026 , #44 Sir Lewis Hamilton becomes the first driver to win...
15/06/2026

Something about the number four? 😲 With his win at the 2026 , #44 Sir Lewis Hamilton becomes the first driver to win a Grand Prix in their forties since Nigel Mansell in 1994, and the Ferrari works team's 40th Grand Prix winner since José Froilán González in 1951 🔮

📸: all LAT Images, 1. Andy Hone, 3. Sam Bloxham

Six-wheeled supremacy, 50 years ago! 🛞 In its fourth race and fresh from a strong outing in Monaco, the Tyrrell P34 ag...
13/06/2026

Six-wheeled supremacy, 50 years ago! 🛞 In its fourth race and fresh from a strong outing in Monaco, the Tyrrell P34 again shone at a tight and twisty track - this time, the banked half-airfield of Scandinavian Raceway at the Swedish Grand Prix. 🇸🇪

Niki Lauda qualified fifth with an old Ferrari engine and the Tyrrells were first and fourth, sandwiching a very happy Mario Andretti in his Lotus 77, and Chris Amon in an Ensign N176 on rails. Andretti's second on the grid became first when he jumped the start; he was penalised 60 seconds and later retired from the lead with engine failure. 🥀 Amon easily held off champion Lauda until suspension collapse at halfway sent him plunging through catch fencing and into the turn one barriers - his second frighteningly big crash in recent races after rolling at Zolder. On appearing worryingly still in the cockpit, he later remarked, "I was sitting there sort of taking in the fact I was still alive." 😰

History was thus made in Anderstorp: Jody Scheckter led Patrick Depailler to the ninth and last Tyrrell 1-2 - and the only one with twelve wheels! Niki Lauda was a fortunate third - his worst finish to date in 1976(!) in a gripless 312T2, but still a record-setting seventeenth consecutive top ten finish - and James Hunt was a quiet fifth, finally scoring points again. 😮‍💨 Elsewhere, more disasters for Fittipaldi - they removed the front anti-roll bar to combat handling issues, which made the FD04 burn through its front tyres so fast they opted to retire after ten laps. 🫣 Sweden's Gunnar Nilsson crashed out on lap three right in front of boss Colin Chapman, and Ronnie Peterson just missed out on a point in 7th. 🤏



📸, all 1976 Swedish Grand Prix:

1. Jody Scheckter on track in his Tyrrell P34. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

2. Mario Andretti (Lotus 77) leads pole sitter Jody Scheckter (Tyrrell P34) and the rest of the field into turn one. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

3. Niki Lauda looking thoughtful. | LAT Images

4. Chris Amon's abandoned Ensign N176 sits amongst damaged catch fencing. | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

5. Race winner Jody Scheckter (centre) pops champagne on the podium as team-mate Patrick Depailler (left, second place) and Niki Lauda (right, third place) watch on. | LAT Images

6. Ronnie Peterson on track in his March 761. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

7. Photographers shoot from the distinctive pit lane bridge as Jody Scheckter passes under in his Tyrrell P34 during practice. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

An endurance race?! 😮‍💨 At just over four hours, the 2011 still holds the record for longest F1 race in history - af...
12/06/2026

An endurance race?! 😮‍💨 At just over four hours, the 2011 still holds the record for longest F1 race in history - after a two hour red flag for rain, On This Day fifteen years ago. 🚩

In one of the most chaotic races of the decade, McLaren's Jenson Button went from a drive-through for speeding under the safety car and a clumsy collision with team-mate Lewis Hamilton to a pulse-pounding final ten laps chasing down race leader Sebastian Vettel - and passing the Red Bull when Vettel ran wide on the final lap! Arguably Button's greatest F1 win, amidst record-breaking chaos. 😵‍💫

📸, all 2011 Canadian Grand Prix:
1. Jenson Button celebrates as he crosses the finish line in his McLaren MP4/26. | Daniel Kalisz/Sutton Images

2. Jenson Button leads team-mate Lewis Hamilton in their McLaren MP4/26 cars, with Hamilton carrying damage after the two made contact on the pit straight. | Andy Hone/LAT Images

3. Jenson Button celebrates in parc ferme before his jubilant McLaren team. | Andy Hone/LAT Images

4. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing RB7) leads a closely following Jenson Button (McLaren MP4/26) through Virage Senna. | Sutton Images

5. In the grey gloom, teams and drivers wait out the red flag period under gazebos and umbrellas on the main straight. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

Into the night 🌌[📸: , wrapping up in 1973]
10/06/2026

Into the night 🌌

[📸: , wrapping up in 1973]

It's another Race Week! 🏃‍♂️ Catalonia has held Grands Prix in stints going back over a century, with the region's fir...
08/06/2026

It's another Race Week! 🏃‍♂️ Catalonia has held Grands Prix in stints going back over a century, with the region's first Spanish Grand Prix appearing at the fearsome banked oval of Sitges-Terramar in 1923. The Spanish GP travelled to the streets of Pedralbes and Montjuïc before settling at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in 1991, which this weekend hosts the inaugural Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Here are some of our favourite Catalan captures 💛❤️💛❤️💛

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1. Fernando Alonso celebrates his win with the Spanish flag in parc ferme. 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

2. François Cevert on a damp track in his Tyrrell 002, lit by the evening sun. 1971 Spanish Grand Prix, Montjuïc. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

3. Alberto Ascari (Ferrari 375) leads the field away at the race start. 1950 Penya Rhin Grand Prix, Pedralbes. | Michael Tee/LAT Images

4. Nigel Mansell (left, William FW14) and Ayrton Senna (right, McLaren MP4/6) go side-by-side down the main straight. 1991 Spanish Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

5. Flames trail from Felipe Massa's Ferrari F2007 as he leaves his pit box. 2007 Spanish Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

6. John Surtees on track in his Surtees TS9, backlit by the bright evening sun on a damp road surface. 1971 Spanish Grand Prix, Montjuïc. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

7. Fernando Alonso (Renault R26) passes the grandstand occupied by his fanclub, decorated with Asturian flags. 2006 Spanish Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

8. Mike Hawthorn passes spectators in his Ferrari 553. 1954 Spanish Grand Prix, Pedralbes. | Michael Tee/LAT Images

9. Mercedes team-mates Nico Rosberg, Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid (left) and Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid (right) slide through the gravel trap after colliding on the first lap. 2016 Spanish Grand Prix. | Zak Mauger/LAT Images

🎂 McLaren celebrate their thousandth Grand Prix start this weekend at the , second in number only to Scuderia Ferrari ...
06/06/2026

🎂 McLaren celebrate their thousandth Grand Prix start this weekend at the , second in number only to Scuderia Ferrari - swipe back in time with us as we take a look at their ten Constructors' Championship winning cars, from M23 to MCL39. Bruce, if you could see them now... 🥹

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1. McLaren M23 - Emerson Fittipaldi - 1974 Spanish Grand Prix | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

2. McLaren MP4/2 - Niki Lauda - 1984 French Grand Prix | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

3. McLaren MP4/2B - Alain Prost - 1985 Italian Grand Prix | LAT Images

4. McLaren MP4/4 - Ayrton Senna - 1988 Monaco Grand Prix | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

5. McLaren MP4/5 - Alain Prost - 1989 Italian Grand Prix | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

6. McLaren MP4/5B - Ayrton Senna - 1990 Mexican Grand Prix | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

7. McLaren MP4/6 - Gerhard Berger - 1991 Spanish Grand Prix | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

8. McLaren MP4-13 - Mika Häkkinen - 1998 San Marino Grand Prix | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

9. McLaren MCL38 - Oscar Piastri - 2024 Japanese Grand Prix | Simon Galloway/LAT Images

10. McLaren MCL39 - Lando Norris - 2025 Spanish Grand Prix | Steven Tee/LAT Images

Born 110 years ago: Doreen Evans, who began racing at Brooklands Museum at just 17. 👧Born into a motoring family in 1...
04/06/2026

Born 110 years ago: Doreen Evans, who began racing at Brooklands Museum at just 17. 👧

Born into a motoring family in 1916, she rose to prominence alongside a groundswell of female racing drivers in the 1930s and raced MGs to class and outright wins. Her success was not limited to Brooklands, either; she was the first woman to race at Donington Park, took the Ladies' Record at Shelsley Walsh and a class win in the RAC Rally, and was part of a team of six women who raced, and finished, at Hours - all in the same year! 💁‍♀️

Famously, during the 1936 International Trophy, her class leading MG caught fire exiting the Home Banking - quite unfazed, she slowed the car enough to leap out before it crashed, sustaining only minor burns. 😮‍💨



📸:
1. Kay Petre (standing, centre right) shakes the hand of Doreen Evans, at the wheel of her MG Midget Q Type. 1935 BARC Opening Meeting, Brooklands. | Autocar/LAT Images
2. Race winner Doreen Evans gets airborne over the bump in her MG Midget Q Type during the Second New Haw Short Handicap. 1935 BARC Opening Meeting, Brooklands. | LAT Images

The beginning of a superlative dynasty, 30 years ago. 👑The 1996 was miserably wet, and two-time world champion Mic...
02/06/2026

The beginning of a superlative dynasty, 30 years ago. 👑

The 1996 was miserably wet, and two-time world champion Michael Schumacher was in his seventh race for a Scuderia Ferrari in rebuilding mode after years of poor reliability and outdated engines - and fresh off the back of a self-induced lap one exit in slippery conditions at Monaco. 🫣

A clutch issue dropped Schumacher back from third on the grid to sixth at the end of lap one, and the ensuing race was filled with cars pirouetting in the Catalonian rain - championship leader Damon Hill had no grip in a Williams FW18 not set up for wet conditions, and his third spin in twelve laps sent him into the wall...almost as the recovering Schumacher took the lead from Williams' Jacques Villeneuve! 😲

In one of the drives of his career, Schumacher charged into the distance, often lapping five seconds faster than the rest of the field in the unloved Ferrari F310 to finish 45 seconds in front of second-placed Benetton driver Jean Alesi. It was the first of a staggering 72 race wins for the Schumacher-Ferrari partnership, who together would clinch the Scuderia's first world championship in 21 years in 2000. 🇩🇪🇮🇹

📸, all 1996 Spanish Grand Prix:
1. Michael Schumacher passes his Ferrari team, jubilant on pit wall, as he wins the race. | Sutton Images

2. On the podium, race winner Michael Schumacher pours champagne over Ferrari Team Principal Jean Todt. | Paul-Henri Cahier/Getty Images

3. Jacques Villeneuve (left, Williams FW18) is passed for the race lead by Michael Schumacher (right, Ferrari F310). | Sutton Images

4. Michael Schumacher in the paddock, seen in front of the Ferrari "Prancing Horse" logo. | ERIC CABANIS/AFP via Getty Images

5. Michael Schumacher (centre) pulls on his race gloves on a rain-soaked grid, standing between physio Balbir Singh (left) and Team Principal Jean Todt (right). | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

6. Michael Schumacher on track in his Ferrari F310. | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

7. Race winner Michael Schumacher celebrates on the podium. | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

The ? In June?! It's Race Week, and here are eight of our favourite shots from almost a century of Monegasque motorsp...
01/06/2026

The ? In June?! It's Race Week, and here are eight of our favourite shots from almost a century of Monegasque motorsport 🇲🇨:

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1. Photographers in position at Massenet. 1968 Monaco Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

2. Alberto Ascari (right, Ferrari 125) navigates a chaotic scene of crashed cars, retired drivers and marshals after seawater flooded Tabac corner on lap one. 1950 Monaco Grand Prix. | LAT Images

3. Tom Pryce steers into a dramatic slide in his Shadow DN5 at Casino Square. 1975 Monaco Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

4. "Georges Philippe" (Baron de Rothschild, Bugatti T35C) leads Rudolf Caracciola (Mercedes-Benz SSK) through Tabac corner. 1929 Monaco Grand Prix. | Autocar/LAT Images

5. Flame spits from the rear of Stefan Johansson's Ferrari 156/85 through Rascasse corner. 1985 Monaco Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

6. Juan Manuel Fangio (Maserati 250F) passes the crashed and abandoned Ferrari D50 cars of Mike Hawthorn ( #28) and Peter Collins ( #26) at the exit of the Chicane du Port. 1957 Monaco Grand Prix. | Michael Tee/LAT Images

7. Michael Schumacher (Ferrari F399) celebrates victory as he drives through Casino Square. 1999 Monaco Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

8. Race winner Daniel Ricciardo performs a swan dive into the Red Bull Energy Station swimming pool. 2018 Monaco Grand Prix. | Andy Hone/LAT Images

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