Immaculate 2005 MG ZS180 spotted & snapped in Earlsfield, London, just now, increasingly rare, especially in this condition. The ZS180 was the flagship model, boasting a 174bhp 2.5-litre V6 that made it decidedly nippy. #AnorakFact: I believe the colour was called ‘solar yellow’.

Ex-FIA President Max Mosley died by his own hand #OnThisDay 5 years ago. ICYMI when it was first published, here’s a column I wrote about him for @motor-sport.bsky.social. I knew him quite well, & I found him both charming & difficult to like. Click below. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

#HappyBirthday Rubens Barrichello, 54. Last year I did a big interview with him for @motor-sport.bsky.social. He revealed a lot about a lot, & he was particularly insightful about Ayrton Senna & Michael Schumacher. If you’d like to read it, click below. www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/arti...

Superb Rainer Schlegelmilch pic of Jody Scheckter en route to #MonacoGP victory #OnThisDay in ’77. A Monaco maestro, Jody led all the way & drove fastest lap, scoring his & the brand-new Wolf team’s 2nd #F1 GP win of the season.

Which was the best #F1 engine formula of them all? IMHO it was the naturally aspirated 3.0-litre formula that ran for 20 seasons from ’66 to ’85 & kicked off #OnThisDay 60 years ago, at Monaco. Click below to read my latest @motor-sport.bsky.social column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

#OnThisDay in ’61 Wolfgang von Trips won the #DutchGP for Ferrari, thereby becoming the first German to win an #F1 GP. #AnorakFact: the race was & still is the only F1 GP run to its full scheduled distance in which no drivers made any pit stops.

Promo poster for the ’55 #MonacoGP, won #OnThisDay 71 years ago by Trintignant (Ferrari). Fangio (Merc) & Moss (ditto) led early on, then Ascari’s Lancia flew into the harbour 20 laps from the end. Ascari swam to safety, but he was killed 4 days later, testing a Ferrari at Monza.

#HappyBirthday Pedro Diniz. But, dammit, how can it be that today is this young, handsome #F1 driver’s 56th birthday? Time flies, big time. Anyway, he started 98 F1 GPs, best result 5th (Spa ’98). Lovely guy.

The BTCC rolls into Norfolk 💨 This weekend, the Diagonal team heads to Snetterton for event three of the 2026 British Touring Car Championship season 👊 We'll be on the ground delivering a turn-key comms, PR, content creation, and social media solution for the series ✍️🎥

A SHORT THREAD: today the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its updated code of practice with respect to trans people in the UK - which, among other things, stipulates that single-sex toilets must exclude trans people. (1/4)

This rare pic shows Mario Andretti practising a Lotus 79 at Monaco in ’78. In the end he opted to race his trusty 78. But at the next #F1 GP, at Zolder #OnThisDay 48 years ago, Mario gave the 79 its F1 GP debut, & he won from the pole. The rest, as they say, is history.

#OnThisDay in ’50, at Monaco, Fangio scored his first championship #F1 GP win, & his first championship F1 GP grand chelem: pole, fastest lap, leading all the way. #AnorakFact: he safely navigated the remains of lap-1 carnage at Tabac, caused by a wave flooding the track.

Remembering Danny Ongais, aka ‘On-gas’ or ‘the flyin’ Hawaiian’, born #OnThisDay in ’42, who won 6 #IndyCar/#ChampCar races, started 4 #F1 GPs, & was the possessor of a simple but mega helmet design. Here’s the lid he wore for his last #Indy500, the ’96 race.

#OnThisDay in ’84, at Dijon, Niki Lauda (McLaren; pic) methodically chased down local favourite Patrick Tambay (Renault), taking the lead & the win when Tambay’s Renault’s brakes began to fade in the latter half of the 79-lap race.

#OnThisDay in ’73 Jackie Stewart (Tyrrell) won the #BelgianGP at Zolder. Here he is leading Jean-Pierre Beltoise (BRM) & Emerson Fittipaldi (Lotus). #AnorakFact: Niki Lauda (BRM) scored his first ever #F1 points, by finishing 5th.

#OnThisDay in ’62 Graham Hill won the #DutchGP - his maiden #F1 GP win. #AnorakFact: Hill’s ‘stackpipe’ BRM P57’s 8 exhausts were mounted vertically but they were prone to working loose & were replaced by a more conventional horizontal layout. He won thrice more that year & became F1 world champion.

One of #F1’s GOATs, a winner of 25 F1 GPs & 3 F1 drivers’ world championships, Niki Lauda died #OnThisDay 7 years ago. Instead of a Ferrari or a McLaren, in which he won so much, I’ve chosen to illustrate him in a bit of a dud, the ’79 Brabham BT48, because it was so utterly gorgeous. #DabOfOppo

At long last! 👍👏

Which was the best #F1 engine formula of them all? IMHO it was the naturally aspirated 3.0-litre formula that ran for 20 seasons from ’66 to ’85 & kicked off exactly 60 years ago, at Monaco. Click below to read my brand-new @motor-sport.bsky.social column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

60 years ago #F1 introduced the greatest engine formula of them all: don't miss @thebishf1.bsky.social on the intoxicating 3-litre era: go.motorsportmagazine.com/4tKIDEf

🗣️ "Race engines should assault the senses, tunnel into rib cages, and leave conversation temporarily impossible. Naturally aspirated 3-litre engines achieved that with intoxicating consistency" @thebishf1.bsky.social on the finest era in #F1 history go.motorsportmagazine.com/4tKIDEf

Remembering Colin Chapman, born #OnThisDay in ’28. Under his direction Team Lotus won 7 #F1 constructors’ titles, 6 F1 drivers’ titles & the #Indy500. The aces he ran are numerous, but here’s a wonderful Rainer Schlegelmilch pic of him with the greatest of them all.

#OnThisDay 30 years ago Olivier Panis scored an astonishing victory at Monaco. I interviewed him for @motor-sport.bsky.social to mark the anniversary, & he had a lot to say about that amazing race & also the rest of his #F1 career. Click below. www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/arti...

#OnThisDay in ’57 the great Juan Manuel Fangio raced this superb Maserati 250F to victory on the unmolested streets of Monaco: ’50s #F1 at its glorious best.

Meet the racing doctor driven to boost mental coaching access among young drivers ✍️ Our Diagonal team recently placed the article below by @feederseries.bsky.social on behalf of Elina Haukipuro. Learn more about who she is and her work in motorsport now 👇 feederseries.net/2026/05/13/m...

Spotted & snapped in Earlsfield, London, just now: always nice to see.

Barack Obama was a proper president, who said & still says properly presidential things. #JustSayin

#HappyBirthday Heinz-Harald Frentzen, 59, who raced 156 #F1 GPs for Sauber, Williams, Jordan, Prost & Arrows, & got pretty damn’ close to having a proper shot at the ’99 F1 drivers’ world championship in the fabulous Jordan 199 (pic), one of the prettiest cars ever made by ‘Team Silverstone’.

Beautiful study of Carlos Reutemann #OnThisDay in ’80, at Monaco, stroking his Williams FW07B to victory on the streets of the Principality a gigantic 73.6sec ahead of Jacques Laffite’s 2nd-placed Ligier JS11/15. Paul-Henri Cahier took the pic.

Remembering #F1 & sports car driver Jo Schlesser, born #OnThisDay in ’28. As a mark of respect to his departed friend, Guy Ligier gave his F1 cars JS-prefixes, such as the stunning ’79 Ligier JS11, driven here by Jacky Ickx, who’d won the GP in which Schlesser had lost his life.

Remembering Toulo de Graffenried, born #OnThisDay in 1914. He raced Maseratis before WW2, & Maseratis & Alfas after it, & he won at Silverstone in ’49, a Grande Épreuve but not a round of the #F1 world championship, which began the next year. Pic: Alfa 159A, Bremgarten, ’51.

I’m told that my Twitter/X account is issuing weird tweets again. It was hacked weeks ago - I have no access to it now - check out this LinkedIn post I wrote on the subject a little while back, & don’t click on any links it tweets, because they’ll all be viral. www.linkedin.com/pulse/clever...

When I was editor of #F1Racing & wrote a regular column for #Autosport, which roles I combined from ’96 to 2007, my ultimate boss was Michael Heseltine, owner of Haymarket, the then publisher of F1 Racing & Autosport. I didn’t agree with his Tory politics then but on the EU I deffo do now. #Rejoin

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Today is International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ It’s an important day to recognise the discrimination faced by our community which, in too many cases, denies people the right to be their true selves and the joy that authenticity brings. #idahobit2026 #lgbtq #pride #trans

#OnThisDay in ’92 Nigel Mansell won the #SanMarinoGP for Williams. #AnorakFact: in so doing, he became the first driver to win the first 5 GPs of an #F1 season.

#OnThisDay in ’87 Alain Prost won the #BelgianGP for McLaren, scoring his 27th #F1 GP victory, thereby equalling Jackie Stewart’s then all-time record. Prost would win 24 more - yet, even so, he now sits only 5th on the most-F1-GP-wins list, & Stewart sits only 9th. #AnorakFact

#OnThisDay 45 years ago Carlos Reutemann won a tragicomic #BelgianGP for Williams, from the pole, driving fastest lap en route. Click below to read a @motor-sport.bsky.social column I wrote about that awfully extraordinary & extraordinarily awful weekend. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

#OnThisDay 50 years ago Niki Lauda & Clay Regazzoni delivered a dominant #BelgianGP 1-2 finish for Ferrari - at Zolder. A few years ago I wrote a #MotorSport column about that much maligned circuit. ICYMI then, click below to read it now. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Luigi Villoresi was born #OnThisDay in 1909. Pic: Ferrari 375/F1, Monza, ’51, taken by Louis Klemantaski. Villoresi never won a GP in the #F1 era, but he won big races before it & non-championship F1 races during it. #AnorakFact: the 375/F1 was Ferrari’s first winning F1 car.

Dive into the brain chemistry of F1 high performance 🧠🏎️ Following the launch of her new book, Driving Performance, check out the latest of Dr. Marcia Goddard's regular columns for Autosport below, which we at Diagonal placed 👇😎 www.autosport.com/f1/news/insi...

Forty years ago today, #F1 lost the successful, popular Elio de Angelis in a needless and entirely avoidable tragedy. Don't miss @thebishf1.bsky.social on a driver we'll not see the like of again go.motorsportmagazine.com/4tyTVeO

#OnThisDay 10 years ago, in Barcelona, at the age of 18 years 228 days, Max Verstappen became the youngest ever #F1 GP winner & the youngest driver to score an F1 GP podium finish, breaking the previous records held by Seb Vettel. Max has done rather well in the 10 years since then, hasn’t he?

#OnThisDay in ’88, at Monaco, Senna clouted the Portier barrier, jumped out, & walked home. He’d have won by a mile - literally. Prost duly inherited the win. But what we’ll always remember that weekend for is 4 numerals separated by a decimal point: 1.427. If you know, you know.

Click below to read my latest @motor-sport.bsky.social column, which I wrote to honour the memory of Elio de Angelis, that noble Roman #F1 ace who lost his life so needlessly #OnThisDay 40 years ago. 😔 www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Alan Rollinson, born #OnThisDay in ’43, was 2nd to Emerson Fittipaldi in ’69 British #F3 in his own Brabham BT21B: no mean feat. He never got a go in #F1 - he drove 12 non-championship F1 races & qualified for but didn’t start the ’65 #BritishGP - but he was very good in #F5000.

Ahead of the Miami Grand Prix, Diagonal client @racingpride.com supported the 2026 Harvey Milk Honors Awards Gala 'Grand Prix Edition' 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Jessica Hawkins was awarded the Harvey Milk Honors Medal during the Gala, news which we amplified via a bespoke press release and comprehensive media outreach 🏅

Fascinating @feederseries.bsky.social interview with Elina Haukipuro, a client of my comms, PR, social media & content creation agency @diagonalcomms.bsky.social, worth a read for anyone who wants to understand why mental coaching matters in motorsport. Click below. feederseries.net/2026/05/13/m...

Here’s Emerson Fittipaldi en route to pole at Monaco in ’72. He’s very proud of that pole lap, for he extracted 100% from his Lotus 72D, 2.4sec quicker than his team-mate Dave Walker. But on race day, #OnThisDay 54 years ago, it rained. Jean-Pierre Beltoise (BRM P160B) won brilliantly. Emmo was 3rd.

#OnThisDay 65 years ago, at Monaco, Stirling Moss scored the #F1 GP win that he rated his best, beating the works Ferraris in his underpowered Rob Walker-entered Lotus 18. Pic: Richie Ginther (Ferrari) leads Moss (Lotus) early on; soon Moss would take a lead he’d never relinquish.