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Day trip to Dieppe
Sir, The photograph in your November issue of Etancelin racing his Maserati in the 1934 Dieppe Grand Prix was simply…
Sir, The photograph in your November issue of Etancelin racing his Maserati in the 1934 Dieppe Grand Prix was simply…
Sir, Good to see Nigel Roebuck choose McLaren's Jo Ramirez as one of his motor racing legends'. It's all too…
Sir, It was with surprise and delight that I came upon a picture of my grandfather, Captain Denis Shipwright, in…
Sir, Best photo in the November issue? Damon Hill as the dirty-minded chauffeur. The lascivious expression on Damon's face is…
Sir, What memories were stirred by your interview with Pat Moss. Naturally, the article brought back to me the names…
Sir, I was very surprised to find myself credited as the sole author of December's article on Jean-Pierre Wimille. May…
Sir, Exactly 30 years ago at the start of 1970, your predecessor Bill Boddy was kind enough to print in…
A strange thing, the Honours List. Given poor behaviour is apparently something to be celebrated these days, perhaps we should…
It's called an Eagle-Weslake T1G, completed just one full season of competition and is perhaps the most beautiful Grand Prix…
There are so many surprising things about Ari Vatanen it's hard to know where to start. The first time I…
Will Riccardo Patrese's record of 256 GP starts ever be beaten? Today it's hard to imagine anyone surviving 17 years…
In part two of Bill Boddy's examination of the pre-war racing Austins, he chronicles the many successes of the marque…
With more computers than an early NASA rocket the latest Nissan Skyline GT-R should be almost as much of a…
Technofile Making racing car bodies out of aluminium was not only difficult but expensive too. Keith Howard reports on the…
Rene Arnoux stood in the Dijon pit lane, listening. Listening to the throttle applications and braking points of an old friend…
This is the greatest race track in the world. A place where heroes were made and destroyed. Matthew Franey takes…
Indianapolis 500, 1986 With team owner Jim Trueman suffering from terminal cancer, Bobby Rahal knew this was the last chance…
By Mike Lawrence, Simon Tayler and Doug Nye ISBN 1 85227 826 9 Published by Virgin, £30.00 Goodwood is fast…
By Michael Diner ISBN 1 85227 841 2 Published by Virgin Books, £30.00 Setting out to write a definitive history…
By Michael Keyser ISBN 8376 0232 7 Published by Bentley, £39.95 The first of two Michael Keyser books this month…
There are two conflicting theories relating to Ferrari’s 2016 driver line-up from those close to the driver market. Perhaps significantly, neither includes Kimi Räikkönen. There is an element that insists…
Examining the personality behind champion Jim – not Jimmy, almost never James – Clark What would he have made of the brazen world of Formula 1 now?…
This year’s Rolex 24 hours at Daytona produced a similar result to last year with a Brumos Porsche winning from one of Chip Ganassi’s two cars, but without 2009’s drama…
The race to arm MotoGP’s private teams with higher-performance CRT bikes is gathering pace. Last summer Honda announced that they will sell a lower-cost version of their RC213V and then…