The moment Mansell’s tyre blew and a nation’s hopes were dashed. Photograph: AP
The latest in our series of classic reports comes from this week in October 1986, when Nigel Mansell went into the Australian grand prix as favourite for the formula one drivers’ crown. It was the season finale and Birmingham’s finest racing driver only [...]

Douglas Jardine leads England out during the Bodyline Series. Photograph: Allsport
The latest instalment of our series of classic Guardian reports is from June 20 1958. Two days earlier Douglas Jardine had died, aged 57. Jardine was the author of and a chief protagonist in the hugely controversial Bodyline Ashes series of 1932/33. He was one [...]