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Fernando Alonso felt he did as much as he could with the car he had during Sunday's British Grand Prix after coming home in seventh place.
Marc Marquez apologises for opening lap clash with rookie Jorge Martin, which took both riders out of the British MotoGP.
Murray Walker Credit: Gray Mortimore/ Getty Images Murray Walker, who has died aged 97, was for more than half a century the high-octane voice of British motor sport and a consummate exponent of – and, indeed, with a strong claim to have invented – the “pants-on-fire” school of broadcast commentary. At full throttle at the television microphone for a Formula 1 grand prix, Walker would typically let rip with what he called his “crash, bang, wallop” approach, developed during years of commentating on low-budget motocross and rallycross competitions. “I reacted excitedly and enthu...
The battle had been long and bloody, and the street was littered with bodies, but the enemy was not beaten yet. As a 21-year-old British officer leapt from his Sherman tank, he was confronted by a young German soldier. Pale and bespectacled, the officer drew his pistol and waited to discover whether the German, still desperately clutching his weapon, was prepared to stake everything on one last stand. But the man was dying, and no shots were exchanged. Murray Walker would never forget that intense moment in what he called 'a bloody time', as he joined the Allied spearhead into Germany in 1945...
Mike with the Mellano Trophy he won at Silverstone in 1960 A 100mph crash brought his car career to an end at the Nurburgring circuit in 1974. This was two years after he had been awarded the George Medal for bravery in pulling fellow driver Clay Regazzoni from his blazing car during the South African Grand Prix. His fans, however, had not seen the last of Hailwood. Ten years after being awarded the MBE for services to motorcycle racing, he entered the 1978 TT, just for fun. Jim Adams, left, and Mike Hailwood with Vic Willoughby, a reporter from The Motorcycle magazine Amid ...