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Lunch with John Wickham
He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car…

He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car…
The watch business has truly joined the online configurator game that has proven so popular in the car industry. One…
There has, it seems, always been a small gap in Stirling Moss’s history. The result for the 1953 GP at…
The road to Amelia Island is a calm, gentle drive, tracing the Florida coastline and rolling past pretty wooden beachside…
Think of Miki Biasion and images of Martini-liveried Lancia Delta Integrales throwing up the dust or scrabbling for grip on…
If it were possible to bottle whatever Cesare Fiorio is made of, you’d be able to name your price. He…
There was a moment, a pause, and then the realisation – yes, that had just happened. Lancia team principal Cesare…
Caught between eras, Formula 1’s struggle to downsize has only been intensified by coronavirus. No team better encapsulates this struggle…
The rain came in biblical proportions. On March 21, 1959, Sebring was soaked, and it featured the US race debut…
Tom Walkinshaw was always one to leave a strong first impression. Love him or loathe him – and there were…
Rudi Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the stupendous W196 Mercedes, described the Lancia D50 Formula 1 machine as “the only car…
Once it was Britain’s Motor City. Coventry, in the bustling industrial Midlands, was the hub where from 1896 onward such…
Lockdown might have had a seriously detrimental effect on businesses everywhere – but not, it seems, if you happen to…
HRDC race director Julius Thurgood really started a trend when he had the idea of establishing his accessible Academy series…
A few months ago in these pages we expressed a thought that the old car market, while generally on a…
With the whole world upside-down and few of us knowing what the next few days will bring – never mind…
It’s hard to think of a more successful or influential junior single- seater than Tatuus’ first one-make Formula Renault racer.…
The term ‘cobbled together’ is an understatement in regards to the Austin-Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite. The 1950s sports car was the…
Porsche set the standard in the Group C era, but it faced rare stern opposition at Silverstone in 1983. Brian…
4 August, 1969 German Grand Prix Jacky Ickx stole the show at the Nürburgring in 1969, sealing pole in his…
Formula E CEO and founder Alejandro Agag bullish about electric motor sport's staying power In 40 years, Formula E will be the "only motor sport out there" according to CEO…
Next Sunday, March 17, marks the 71st running of the Daytona 200, once the traditional curtain raiser for the international bike racing season. Nowadays the event is a shadow of…
Dan Gurney e-mailed us yesterday with his statement on the passing of Sir Jack Brabham It is with great sadness that I received the news that my former Formula 1…
Motorsport often tends to be a microcosm of the real world, and that’s certainly the case right now during the coronavirus pandemic as individuals and businesses face financial uncertainty –…