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Le Mans phenomenon
In the mid-1980s a privateer team pulled off a remarkable feat in winning the classic Le Mans 24 Hours race…
In the mid-1980s a privateer team pulled off a remarkable feat in winning the classic Le Mans 24 Hours race…
The BP/Ford World Rally Team is on the march to retain the Manufacturers’ world title it won last year, as…
Sir Stirling Moss finished in the top three places in the World Championship every year from 1955 to 1961. He…
Peter Darley Readers may remember that we were so impressed by Peter Darley's photographs that we carried a gallery of…
Just in time for the celebrations comes this official history, by respected auto-historian David Venables, of the world's first motor race…
Bernard Cahier Cahier has been in the business since the 1950s, and is still at it aged 79. Now he…
Joe Saward This is a book about grand prix drivers who became secret agents, working with the French resistance. Want to…
David Rothauser – DVD A labour of love, celebrating a time when drivers approached their motor racing with a strong sense of…
Cleare facts Sir, I write with regard to the photograph of the Kremer CK5 to be sold by Coys at…
Wing Commander MHT Cooke was a lifelong motor racing enthusiast and a devotee of this magazine. He died recently at…
Silverstone is special The BRDC Chairman explains why negotiations about a grand prix at Silverstone are entirely different to other…
The FIA’s plans to make GP cars more fuel efficient might benefit the wider world, but the knock-on effect of reducing…
Can the new Drophead Coupé – a convertible Phantom in all but name – be likened to such illustrious progenitors…
It was on May Day 1955 that Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, and for almost 40 years…
There are three reasons why the Lotus 49 made everything else obsolete overnight – and the DFV is only one…
Ro dive values Two Cosworth e gines, 40 years and 350bhp apart: Mike Costin, one half of the design team,…
The DFV was the world’s most successful F1 engine – but it was much more than that. For more than…
Cosworth was F1’s buzzword – but in sportscars its DFV was a flop, despite the efforts of a famously successful…
Dr Wolfgang Ulrich, head of Audi Motorsport, took time out from his Le Mans preparations to talk to Gary Watkins…
Sir Frank Williams’s achievements in motor racing are great and well-known. But, as Rob Widdows discovers, he’s also passionate about…
One of the highlights of April’s Long Beach race weekend is the Road Racing Drivers’ Club (RRDC) dinner. Last year the guest of honour was Dan Gurney and proceeds from…
Simon Arron recounts how, with the pulling of multiple strings, he helped Perry McCarthy (Top Gear's former Stig) compete in the penultimate round of the 1989 Formula 3000 Championship One of…
Throughout testing this year, one clear area of differentiation between cars (beyond the noses), is the bargeboards and sidepods. The former have increased in complexity year on year, particularly since…
In 2011, Dan Wheldon came in from the IndyCar cold to take a scarcely believable last-lap, last-corner win at the Indy 500 – his then-team boss Bryan Herta recounts the story