Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes

"Born in a gas station," Tom Kristensen had petrol in his veins from an early age. Despite a flirtation with banking, he went on to win the Le Mans 24 Hours nine times. A record, surely, that won't be matched for quite some time...

Rob, Alan Hyde and I talk through his career from his first 'steps' in a go kart to his World Endurance Championship crown via the Goodwood Revival and his new book.

As always, let us know what you think and enjoy. Oct 13, 2015

"Born in a gas station," Tom Kristensen had petrol in his veins from an early age. Despite a flirtation with banking, he went on to win the Le Mans 24 Hours nine times. A record, surely, that won't be matched for quite some time...

Rob, Alan Hyde and I talk through his career from his first 'steps' in a go kart to his World Endurance Championship crown via the Goodwood Revival and his new book.

As always, let us know what you think and enjoy.

After flying down specially from Edinburgh and a quick lunch at our new local Italian restaurant Robert Reid sat down to talk through his career and that of his long-time driver Richard Burns.

We cover everything from wallpaper with Mk 2 Escorts on it (yes, really) to the 2001 World Rally Championship via Colin McRae and what made Richard so special.

In the second half we launch the rally category for the Hall of Fame and you can now vote on any one of the 12 names we decided on with Robert.

This year at the Goodwood Revival the Credit Suisse Drivers' Forum, hosted by Henry Hope-Frost, consisted of Sir Stirling Moss, Derek Bell, Jochen Mass, Dario Franchitti, Alain de Cadenet and Jackie Oliver. The subject – racing in America vs racing in Europe.

On Thursday afternoon at the Goodwood Revival, as teams were unloading transporters, we grabbed Steve Soper and Andrew Jordan to sit down and record a podcast.

To help us out with the tin top racers BTCC pitlane reporter Alan Hyde joined us for the first time. Well, we say first time, but he's always been sat recording the podcasts with us – this was just the first time we gave him a microphone...

Why do Steve and Andrew race at the Revival? And how did the latter find a Lotus Cortina when he drove it in the wet for the first time? We cover the famous Revival as well as the BTCC then and now.

The doyen of sports car racing Gary Watkins helps the Motor Sport team decide who should be on the shortlist for the 2016 Hall of Fame sports car category. Derek Bell? Hans Stuck? Allan McNish? Henri Pescarolo? It's now up to you, the public, to vote.

On Tuesday 28th the podcast team of Roebuck, Widdows, Arron and myself journeyed north to the suburbs of Northampton to call on the ex-F1, Le Mans, rally, Can-Am and Indycar designer Tony Southgate.

Greeted with fresh coffee and biscuits we tried to condense his four decades in the sport into an hour. There were one or two things we didn't have time to discuss...

We did, however, discuss his beginnings in motor racing with Lola, his move to Brabham and then his subsequent stints at Lola (again), Shadow, Arrows, Lotus, Audi... The list is as long as it is varied.

2016 Hall of Fame podcast: the Formula 1 debate by Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes

On Tuesday June 23, as part of the National Women in Engineering Day, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers hosted an evening entitled ‘Women in Motorsport Engineering – Beating the Competition’.

BBC Radio 5 Live F1 presenter Jennie Gow chaired the discussion and speakers included Audi Sport race engineer Leena Gade, Force India performance and strategy engineer Bernadette Collins and BTCC data engineer Gemma Hatton. There were also presentations from F1 in Schools world champion Colossus’s scrutineering engineer Rachael Matthews, F1 in Schools UK champion Evolution’s team manager Helen Jarman, Cambridge University masters engineering student Aurelia Hibbert and University of Warwick engineering undergraduate Hannah Sugrue. Jun 26, 2015