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welcome“Motor Sport, published since 1924, is perhaps the best-known motor racing magazine in the world. Today, we’ve made Motor Sport more relevant to a wider readership by again including contemporary racing, particularly F1, in addition to the historical articles and fabulous photography for which we are famous.

Motor Sport is driven by quality, intelligence and integrity. It is aimed at the top end of the market. Motor Sport is fearless: there’s nothing to stop us calling it like it is and lobbying hard to make racing more attractive. While sales of other motoring titles have stalled, Motor Sport’s circulation increased in 2008 by 12.6 per cent to 33,210 copies per month. We are continuing to invest and expand to make Motor Sport more relevant, more attractive and more available to a wider audience both in the UK, the USA and around the world.”

Nigel RoebuckEditor-in-Chief

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The Maserati 250F is rightly regarded as one of the

greatest Grand Prix cars, so the chance to drive Stirling Moss’s 1956 Monaco GP winner was

the fulfilment of a dreamB y a n d r e w F r a n k e l

S t i r l i n g M o S S

“It was just such an easy car to drive fast;

the faster you went, the better it felt”

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Plans of hopePlans of hopePlans of hopeand gloryand glory

Plans of hopeand glory

Plans of hopeAston Martin returns to Le Mans this year hoping for a victory against the odds. Much as it did in 1959…

Plans of hopea victory against the odds. Much as it did in 1959…

Plans of hopePlans of hopeB Y R O B W I D D O W S

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I t was about an hour after the end of the Australian Grand Prix that Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello were finally able to break free of their media commitments and return to the Brawn GP garage. Darkness already enveloped the track as the pair strode

along the pitlane, to where a small but noisy crowd of team members awaited them. It was hard to forget that for much of the winter these guys didn’t know if they would still have a job after March.

As The Who blasted away at a free concert on the other side of the pit straight Rubens jumped straight into the mob like a bodysurfing punk rocker. Meanwhile Jenson’s dad John stepped in front of the crowd, posing for the photographers with a glass of red in his hand and a huge smile on his face. It was a little while before team bosses Ross Brawn and Nick Fry appeared for the improvised celebration, joined by that consummate PR man Richard Branson, who had announced his involvement with the squad just the day before.

As if on cue, the strains of Pete Townshend’s Who Are You? echoed across Albert Park. It was a question that this group of people had just answered to the world at large. Brawn GP had arrived…

The Brawn GP story is a modern F1 fairytale, but Ross & Co are still seeking their happy ever afterB y a d a m C o o P e r

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W hen Allan McNish was a wee pre-teen kart racer, his father gave him a piece of advice he’s never forgotten.

“Dad said, ‘It’s not the good shots that make the good golfers. It’s the good recoveries. If you can get out of the bunker without losing too much, you’re the good guy.’ More than once my motor racing career has been in the bunker, and I’ve had to get it out. It’s about determination, stubbornness, stupidity maybe, and talent too, I suppose. But most of all it’s about hard work. Too many people put too much emphasis on the other things, but hard work is what it’s really about.”

As a teenager, Allan was hailed by many as the next Jackie Stewart. His diminutive figure scythed through karting and the single-seater formulae, and when he was 19 Ron Dennis decided he was the young man that McLaren needed to follow the Senna/Prost generation. So Ron signed him, Lewis-like, on a long contract. Then the career strategy went awry. In the end Allan didn’t start his first Grand Prix until he was 32 years old, and his only Formula 1 season produced nul points. Now, in his 40th year, he is one of the fastest, and best paid, sports car racers in the world. This month he tackles his 11th Le Mans and, even in the lottery that is the world’s cruellest, most unpredictable race, he has to start as favourite.

A mark of Allan’s success is that he now lives, with his wife Kelly and their two small children, in the F1 drivers’ dormitory town of Monte Carlo. No F1 star would offer to play taxi driver, but when I invite myself to lunch he drives his Audi Q5 to Nice Airport to meet me. His apartment in Fontvielle overlooks the harbour, and just round the corner is the Hotel Columbus, owned by fellow Scot David Coulthard. That’s where we lunch, on the terrace overlooking the blue Mediterranean. Mixing his jet-set life with his humble roots, Allan orders crevettes au guacamole, followed by fish and chips in newspaper – but the Columbus style dictates that it’s served on a copy of the FT. He drinks only water, of course, but later as we wander along the harbour he treats himself to an ice cream cornet.

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Motor Sport’s website, www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk, features regular blogs from our writers on which readers are invited to comment. This is material not seen in the magazine. Motor Sport is also producing video podcasts which are available to view on our website. Armed with a camera, the team aims to capture not just the action but the atmosphere at motor racing events. We plan to film up to 10 podcasts a year, and so far these have been a great success.

Motor Sport has also started recording regular audio podcasts – again available via the website – which will include contributions from Nigel Roebuck, Damien Smith, Rob Widdows, Ed Foster and other guests. They will discus what’s going on in the motor racing world, from the track action to the politics. It’s not scripted, and it’s not always politically correct, but it promises to always be entertaining.

MotoR SpoRt EMbRaCES NEw tEChNology

MotoR SpoRt’S hiStoRy goES digital

Motor Sport provides a unique view on contemporary motor sport, but with over 85 years of history as the racing enthusiast’s mouthpiece, it’s difficult to ignore the past.

Readers old and new sought a way of accessing the wealth of journalism, photography and advertising from the magazine’s past in a user-friendly digital format. So we solved the problem.

In 2008 Motor Sport launched its digital archive. This includes a series of five CD discs which include every page, every story and every advertisement from 1924-1989. So by advertising in Motor Sport you can become a part of motor racing history.

Motor Sport launched as The Brooklands gazette, the organ of motor and motor cycle sport

1924

1925

1929

name changed from the July issue to the all-encompassing Motor Sport

Motor Sport is taken over by Bentley owner T g moore

1924 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

1936Motor Sport is purchased by wesley J Tee. Bill Boddy joins as editor

1945Bill Boddy continues to edit Motor Sport throughout the war years

1955in Motor Sport’s greatest sporting success, DsJ wins the mille miglia with stirling moss

1947enzo Ferrari

establishes the team that will become the

most famous in motor racing as the world

recovers from war

1960cover proudly proclaims largest certified net sales; the aBc audited circulation topped 100,000

1967Motor Sport achieves record average sales of

164,774 ABC Jul - Dec 1967

1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s today

1975Motor Sport celebrated its golden Jubilee in august, ignoring the previous name of the Brooklands Gazette

1997magazine re-launched to celebrate the sport’s history

1985nigel mansell wins his first grand prix at Brands hatch

“we intend that Motor Sport will continue to be better value, and we

will not be discarding our traditional values. we will continue to be

outspoken. we will continue to be slightly cynical. we will continue to

expose the bogus. we will continue to aim for the highest standards

of honesty, accuracy and good writing”

From motor Sport editorial, december 1985ToDAy

nigel roebuck and Damien smith have led Motor Sport into a new and successful era for the magazine

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The story behind a ‘British spirit’ blitz on the world’s greatest sports car race – 50 years after DBR1’s famous victory

MOSS’S MONACO MASERATI RIDES AGAIN

The 250F, Stirling’s favourite.And now we get to drive it!

B Y A N D R E W F R A N K E L

BRILLIANT BUTTON’SGP RENAISSANCE

How Ross Brawn has gifted Jenson a tilt at the F1 title

B Y A D A M C O O P E R

A s t o n M a r t i n

MISSIONLE MANS!

NIGEL ROEBUCKWhy Hamilton should

share McLaren’s shame

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1988ayrton senna and alain prost go head-to-head for the F1 world title. senna prevails

1996Damon hill celebrates world championship

victory over arch-rival michael schumacher

2006Motor Sport goes

online with a dedicated website

2008lewis hamilton wins his first world championship at the last corner of the last race of the seasonMotoR SpoRt

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Motor Sport readers appreciate excellence in all things mechanical, they love speed and recognise skill. They are discerning and expect excellent writing and outstanding photography when it comes to magazines. Many own at least one classic car and others compete in historic racing with cars valued at millions of pounds. They attend motor racing events and appreciate the finer things in life.

We have been encouraged by the support of our readers, who continue to be passionate and committed to the title. The magazine with the distinctive green cover has built up its reputation over more than 1000 issues as the true voice of motor racing – and it continues to do so.

MotoR SpoRt iS foR pEoplE who lovE CaR RaCiNg

REadER pRofilEn male 45-55 yearS oF age Likely to own or have owned their own business

n ownS at leaSt one claSSic car Spends a significant amount per year restoring their car

n many oF the readerS are participantS in the Sport, owning Some oF the FineSt carS in the world

n a large majority regularly attend leading ShowS Such aS goodwood, eSSen and pebble beach They are a high-spending, exclusive readership whose good taste and desire for quality extends from the car they drive to the watch they wear and beyond

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“I started reading Motor Sport avidly in 1947 or thereabouts, and I haven’t missed an issue since then, because it’s an exceptionally good magazine,

simple as that. To me, one of its particular qualities is that, while it’s very professionally written and produced,

it’s somehow a very friendly magazine, and real racing enthusiasts feel very

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“I really appreciate the integrity of Motor Sport. It’s a magazine for grown-ups, isn’t it? Being a motor

trader born and bred, I tend to start at the back, looking at the ads for all the

wonderful cars I wish I could afford, and then work through to the front,

finding it gets better and better all the way. There’s so much to read, and

when you’ve finished it, you find you don’t throw Motor Sport away, as you do with so many other magazines”

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