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Historic scene: December 2017
Viva Salmone! That mock-Italian moniker followed Mike Salmon through a racing life full of great cars – and great stories…
Viva Salmone! That mock-Italian moniker followed Mike Salmon through a racing life full of great cars – and great stories…
Outing Formula 1 Editor Nick Trott’s Matters of Moment piece in the November edition was absolutely spot-on with regard to fans getting…
A year after he was ousted, Bernie Ecclestone looks back on his F1 reign and reveals why he doesn’t go…
...a team that established Bernie in F1 Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac formed Motor Racing Developments while the former…
This year’s duel between Lewis and Sebastian has been a long time coming. But what makes the two most successful…
Their performances are similar, but the outstanding Formula 1 cars of 2017 followed very different routes to the same destination…
Low rake means less variation in the aero platform across different ride heights. The aero platform does not therefore need…
The high-rake Ferrari SF70H – compact, conceptually simple but with lots of trick detail – was a classic Rory Byrne…
Colin Chapman’s reputation as an innovative genius endures, but some of his cars performed less well than others. The imperfect…
It doesn’t look like the BMW 635s that raced in Europe, but this Australian Black Beauty was a crowd favourite…
Tim Reid went to school within earshot of Silverstone – very handy for a young enthusiast “I could hear cars…
“Life without sideways is monotonous,” shouts Ari Vatanen as he slaloms up a dirt track towards his local restaurant. “We…
The Penske PC22 was designed to lap Indianapolis at 220-odd mph, among other things, yet one has recently been active…
The Autumn Classic concluded the local hillclimb season with a cocktail of US muscle and traditional British whimsy Given the…
Timing is everything Reservoir The classic analogue watch face has existed for hundreds of years. The earliest clock faces –…
End of the line for Vauxhall’s traditional performance yardstick A big Holden masquerading as a Vauxhall has been such a…
Upgraded Lambo is a car for driving, not posing Ageing curmudgeon that I am, I always approach cars like this…
Not quite, but the Velar is the marque’s sportiest model yet – Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic HSE D300 – It was,…
Race-ready Aston Martin Vantage GT2 is your ticket to Le Mans Little wonder GT racing has been enjoying such…
London’s only Morgan dealer proves location counts If the rolling Malvern Hills are the ideal setting for appreciating Morgan’s…
It's been 88-years since Lagonda defied the odds, beating Alfa Romeo to earn its first Le Mans victory: a worthy triumph often overlooked in the race's long history
At the Festival of Speed this year our 'senior contributing writer' Andrew Frankel took a Porsche 908/3 up the hill at Goodwood. This was no ordinary Porsche 908/3 (is there…
Five-time Grand Prix winner John Watson joined editor Nick Trott, features editor Simon Arron and digital editor Jack Phillips for a typically entertaining 80 minutes for the latest podcast in…
A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here From the editor Damien Smith How would you define a ‘great’ racing car? Race wins and…