Nine world championships, 14 TT wins, and he nearly won at Monza on four wheels too. The extraordinary Mike Hailwood, remembered by Matt Bishop #F1 go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dtXVc9

Further to my tweet below, you may (or may not) be interested to know that the men’s loo at Frantoio is indicated by the proximity to its door of this rather arty image.👌

Fab date night yesterday with my husband Angel at Frantoio in King’s Road, London, an old-school Italian trattoria & a Chelsea neighbourhood gem. Sitting at a table adjacent to ours was Joan Collins, 92, who was in fine fettle. Here’s a nice pic of her taken almost 70 years ago.

Beautiful, warm sunshine here in our garden in Earlsfield, London - & what better mug to drink my coffee out of than one bearing the image of an MGB GT? In case you’re interested, I bought it last week from the gift shop of the British Motor Museum.👌

Jim Clark lost his life in an #F2 race at Hockenheim #OnThisDay in ’68. There have been other great drivers but none greater. Pic: Lotus 33, Zandvoort, ’65, taken by Yves Debraine.

Sometimes a single-word page-one splash suffices. Today is such a day. Well done to the #DailyMirror team who decided not to sugarcoat their disdain for Donald Trump’s egregious #Easter message. 👏

Beautiful, warm sunshine here in our garden in Earlsfield, London - & what better mug to drink my coffee out of than one bearing the image of an E-Type Jag? In case you’re interested, I bought it last week from the gift shop of the British Motor Museum.👌

#OnThisDay 12 years ago, in Bahrain, Lewis Hamilton beat his Merc team-mate Nico Rosberg in a tense & dramatic race. Not every #F1 GP can be a thriller but this one was, as this fantastic pic illustrates. #ProperOvertaking

#OnThisDay in 2008 Felipe Massa (Ferrari) got the jump on pole man Robert Kubica (BMW-Sauber) to lead & eventually win the #BahrainGP. Massa’s Ferrari team-mate Kimi Räikkönen was 2nd, Kubica 3rd.

#OnThisDay in 2003, at Interlagos, Giancarlo Fisichella won an #F1 GP for the first time, for the much missed Eddie Jordan, after a soaking-wet race in which he’d managed the lack of grip brilliantly while the more fancied runners had been binning their cars into the barriers.

Remembering Hermann Lang, born #OnThisDay in 1909. Pic: Merc W125, Großglockner hillclimb, ’39. Lang was a mechanic turned racer, looked down on by his patrician team-mates. Manfred von Brauchitsch once ordered post-race champers for himself & Rudi Caracciola & “a beer for Lang”.

Amazingly impressive 10-3 demolition of world No1 Judd Trump by reigning world champion Zhao Xintong (pic) just now, to win this year’s #TourChampionship. Trump’s post-match speech was very sporting: he called Zhao “the best player in the world” & it’s hard to disagree. #Snooker

Many UK polls now reveal growing public Bregret (Brexit regret) owing to worry about trade barriers, low growth & reduced freedom of movement; & now that the US is such an unsound ally, the Rejoin movement is gaining big momentum, & rightly so. Click below. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bri...

Today I’ll mainly be curled up on a sofa at home watching the #TourChampionship #Snooker final on Channel 5. World No1 Judd Trump is a brilliant player, but he’ll have his work cut out to beat in-form reigning world champion Zhao Xintong (pic). It should be a corker of a match.👌

#OnThisDay 34 years ago was run the ’92 #BrazilGP, the last #F1 GP for which a female driver was entered. Giovanna Amati DNQ’d her Brabham BT60B (pic) & was replaced for the next F1 GP, the Spanish, by one Damon Hill. #AnorakFact

Remembering Ronnie Bucknum, born #OnThisDay in ’36, who raced the first Honda #F1 car (Nürburgring, ’64; pic). It was uncompetitive at first, but its successor won in Mexico in ’65, driven by Richie Ginther. Both cars used a fiercely accelerative high-revving 1.5-litre V12.

Alfonso Thiele, born #OnThisDay in 1920, drove one #F1 GP, Monza ’60, run on the full banking, which the British teams objected to & boycotted. Pic: needing extras, Scuderia Centro Sud invited Thiele to race in his first single-seater event of any note. He qualified 9th & DNF’d.

Tatty but lovely ’71 Buick Riviera spotted & snapped on Ladbroke Grove, London, just now. 🇺🇸👌

I was surprised & delighted to see a copy of my much missed mum Bernardine Bishop’s 3rd novel, #UnexpextedLessonsInLove (2013), not only for sale but also on promo display at the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town Road, London, earlier this afternoon. (1/2)

Yesterday, Diagonal MD @thebishf1.bsky.social co-hosted our client @racingpride.com's annual Accelerate Pride event 🎙️ Two other Diagonal clients also attended: Nichols Cars, which brought one of its stunning N1A, and Tamara Ivancova, who brought her revolutionary Elecy 4-wheeled eBike 🏎️

The UK’s London-based mainstream media are colluding with Keir Starmer’s & Yvette Cooper’s “We’re supporting defensive action” deception, thereby endorsing Labour’s lie that the British Gov’t isn’t complicit in US war crimes in Iran. But the Scottish media is telling the truth.👏

I’ve written a long interview with #F1 GP winner, #SuperGT champion, #JapaneseRallyChampionship multi-champion & all-round great guy Heikki Kovalainen for the latest issue of #MotorSport magazine. (1/2)

#OnThisDay in ’82, at Long Beach, Niki Lauda won an #F1 GP for the first time in nearly 4 years, his 3rd race since making his F1 comeback for McLaren after a 2-year interregnum. Pic: I’ve always loved the looks of the front wing-free MP4/1B.

#HappyBirthday Christian Danner, 68. The first #F3000 champ (’85), he raced single-seaters, sports cars & touring cars, including 36 #F1 GPs & 18 #IndyCar  races. He’s a nice & clever guy, too. #AnorakFact: he still holds the old Nürburgring #F2 lap record.

#HappyBirthday Richard Attwood, 86. He started 16 #F1 GPs, driving BRMs, Lotuses, Coopers & Brabhams, best result 2nd for BRM at Monaco in ’68 (pic), where he also took fastest lap. Oh & he won the #LeMans24Hours in ’70 in a Porsche 917, Porsche’s first ever Le Mans triumph.

I’ve just got home from spending a great day at the British Motor Museum, where I was co-hosting Racing Pride’s #AcceleratePride. Here are 2 fab exhibits: ex-Jaguar #F1 boss Tony Purnell’s superb ’53 C-Type Jag & Tamara Ivancova’s revolutionary Elecy 4-wheeled eBike. #GoodFriday

I’ve just got home from spending a great day at the British Motor Museum, where I was co-hosting Racing Pride’s #AcceleratePride. One of the exhibitors was Nichols Cars, whose superb N1A is a seriously desirable modern reimagining of the iconic McLaren M1A #CanAm car. #GoodFriday

The answers to the quiz questions in my tweet below are: Racing Pride’s #AcceleratePride event at the British Motor Museum; ’62 Ford Anglia 105E; ’75 Vauxhall Firenza HP Droopsnoot; ’70 Jensen FF Series II; ’65 Alvis TE21.

Quiz question 1: guess where I am today. Quiz question 2: can you name all 4 cars (2 are quite easy; 2 are quite tricky). #GoodFriday

Spotted & snapped in New Eltham, London, a couple of hours ago. Always good to see. 🪲

Fast & fun drive yesterday from the lovely village of May-en-Multien, where I’ve been visiting an old friend, to the small town of La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, in the Seine-et-Marne département, along open, empty French D-roads that remind Londoners like me what motoring should be.👌

But for a clumsy lorry driver who did an illegal U-turn near Birmingham in ’81, today would have been Mike Hailwood’s 86th birthday, for he was born #OnThisDay in ’40. A superb bike racer & a fine car racer, he was also a wonderful character. Pic: chatting with James Hunt.

Remembering Jack Brabham, born #OnThisDay 100 years ago. Here’s a #MotorSport column I wrote about one #F1’s GOATs. Click below to read it. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

#OnThisDay in ’78 Carlos Reutemann won at Long Beach in a Ferrari 312T3. Pic: Alan Jones (Williams FW06) & Mario Andretti (Lotus 78) battling for 2nd; Jones took it, set off after Reutemann, then dropped to 7th with fuel pressure problems; Andretti retook 2nd.

Every April 1 for many years I’ve posted an #F1-related #AprilFoolsDay tweet. This year, with the world in the state it’s in, I don’t have the heart to do so, so instead here’s an #AprilFool.

A few days more than 55 years ago Mario Andretti won the non-championship #F1/#F5000 #QuestorGP for Ferrari. It was held on the vast, gleaming & popular Ontario Motor Speedway, which opened in ’70 & closed in ’80. Click to read my new #MotorSport column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

It was a state-of-the-art circuit, drawing celebrities, concerts and an Evel Knievel record attempt - all under the Californian sun. But, writes @thebishf1.bsky.social , the Ontario Motor Speedway hosted just one #F1 race before the bulldozers moved in go.motorsportmagazine.com/4sKJbud

#OnThisDay 30 years ago, in Brazil, Damon Hill achieved a significant landmark: his 15th #F1 GP win. Why significant? Because it took him ahead of his father Graham, who won 14 F1 GPs. 2nd was Jean Alesi, 3rd an unhappy-looking Michael Schumacher. The 4th man is of course Pelé.

Bertil Roos, who died #OnThisDay 10 years ago, aged 72, was more successful in the US than in Europe. He started one #F1 GP (Anderstorp, ’74, Shadow DN3; pic) & was #SCCA #SuperVee champion in ’73, won races in #CanadianAtlantic in ’75, & was #CanAm 2000cc champion in ’82 & ’83.

Cool podium pic taken by Paul-Henri Cahier #OnThisDay in ’97, after Jacques Villeneuve (Williams), Gerhard Berger (Benetton) & Olivier Panis (Prost) had finished 1st, 2nd & 3rd at Interlagos.

#OnThisDay in ’80 Nelson Piquet won an #F1 GP for the first time, at Long Beach, in a Brabham BT49. Pic: on the same day his fellow countryman, Emerson Fittipaldi, drove his eponymous Fittipaldi F7 to 3rd place, his 35th & final F1 GP podium.

#OnThisDay in ’74 Carlos Reutemann won the #SouthAfricanGP in a Brabham BT44: one of the great car/driver combos of that glorious #F1 decade.

#HappyBirthday Mike Thackwell, 65. The 8th-youngest driver to qualify for an #F1 GP, he started 2, in ’80 & ’84. He was quick in #F3 & he blitzed Euro #F2 in ’84, winning 7 races out of 11. I gather he now spends much of his time surfing off the south coast of England. Cool dude.

Remembering one of #F1’s greatest mavericks, Eddie Jordan, born #OnThisDay in ’48. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a #MotorSport column about him. ICYMI then, you may like to click below to read it now. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

#OnThisDay in ’98, at Interlagos, Mika Häkkinen scored a grand chelem victory - pole position, fastest lap, leading from lights to flag. It was his 3rd consecutive #F1 GP win, & the 3rd consecutive 1-2 finish for McLaren. It really doesn’t get a lot better than that.

#OnThisDay in ’81, at Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Reutemann famously disregarded his Williams team’s ‘Jones-Reut’ pit board to beat his team-mate Alan Jones to #BrazilGP victory.

Accelerate Pride is a vital part of Racing Pride’s mission - bringing the motorsport, automotive, and LGBTQ+ communities together. In 2026 it’s important to have spaces to speak freely and support each other. #pride #britishmotormuseum #inclusion #motorsport #lgbtq

Spotted & snapped in Battersea, London, just now: absolutely not my cup of tea. It fact I think it’s gaudy & vulgar. What do you think?

#OnThisDay in ’76 was run the #USGPWest, the first Long Beach #F1 GP. In the 50 years since, much has changed; but Long Beach ’76 showed that F1 could embrace new ideas without losing sight of its core identity. Click to read my latest #MotorSport column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Remembering super-talented but taken-far-too-soon Tony Brise, born #OnThisDay in ’52. A few months ago I wrote a #MotorSport column about him. ICYMI then, you may like to click below to read it now. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...