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Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb…
Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb…
Despite laughable budgets and two serious shunts, John Watson finally got the F1 chance he deserved. Paul Fearnley retraces the…
15 minutes of fame Safir: 1975 British GP F3 race Eleven different chassis competed in British F3 in 1975, but one…
The Safari was the world's most photogenic event; Reinhard Klein is rallying's greatest photgrapher. This is a selection of stunning images…
Three decades after being sold as just another lot in a liquidation sale, this incredible GT racer has been unearthed. Paul Fearnley tells…
The Brighton Run for veteran cars, on November 2, was as usual tremendously successful, as one of the world's most important…
I knew Derek Buckler quite well. A rather serious chap, and why not, when you are selling kit-car parts and complete…
The present owner of the low-chassis S-type 4.5-litre Invicta which the late Bugatti exponent Lindsay Eccles owned until 1947, and…
After a long wait I have the true story about when John Duff, driving one of the pre-war 22.5-litre chain-drive…
Nigel Orlebar, who died aged 87 in September, joined the VSCC in 1936. His mother had competed in pre-WWI hillclimbs in…
Journalists are told not to reveal their news sources, which in politics has led to tragic results. I wonder who in…
My recent item about a Bamford & Martin Aston Martin brought encouraging news of these cars. Andy Bell of Ecurie Bertelli…
Ronnie Peterson: Formula One Super Swede By Johnny Tipler ISBN 1 902351 07 X Published by Coterie Press Ltd, £34.95 If…
Ken Block, the Gymkhana star, rally driver and car modifier has passed away at the age of 55
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Not the first motor race with a GP suffix – that was Pau in February 1901…
Can Aston Martin return Sebastian Vettel to his title-winning best?
Karun Chandhok reports after the Austrian Grand Prix, where a flying Finn clinched a second career win I’ll be honest, that was not the most exciting race in the world.…