Racing Files

British racing legend Sir Stirling Moss is considered by many to be the greatest Formula 1 driver never to have won the drivers' championship. Known as 'the king without a crown', coined by teammate Juan Manuel Fangio, was a passionate racer, and competed in a variety of categories in his decade behind the wheel.

A two-time Formula 1 World champion. Indianapolis 500 winner. A three-time Le Mans entrant with two podium finishes to his name. We can only be speaking of one man - the legendary James Clark Jr., better known as Jim Clark.

Brooklands was the world's first purpose-built racetrack and was soon followed by circuits in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States. As the passion for speed spread around the world, so too did the facilities.

The great American novelist Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.' Motor racing has been littered with battles between teammates.

First held in 1929, the Monaco Grand Prix is the most iconic of all Grand Prix, a race with a storied history that long pre-dates Formula 1 and has become intertwined with the history of motor racing and come to eclipse the sport itself.

Few would have imagined that the small team founded by a racing driver from New Zealand would go on to become a global name in supercar production as well as one of the best-known marques in motor racing.

The world's oldest ongoing sportscar race, the 24 Heures du Mans was first held in 1923. The event is one of the most gloried on the international motor-racing calendar, matched only by the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix.