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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…
MotoGP’s littlest black box changes this year and so will some of Michelin’s black and round things Image: Mat Oxley When Dorna announced last season that it would introduce a…
The first snow fell in New Hampshire on Saturday night. There wasn’t much, only three or four inches, not even a minor hindrance to us Granite Staters. It came a…
International rallying was a different beast in 1973. That year’s Daily Mirror-sponsored RAC was contested by 198 crews over five days and 70 stages; it would have been 80 stages…
Plans fall through for second F1 race in America – for now Formula 1 will not race in Miami in 2019 as planned but Liberty Media hasn't ruled out a 2020 race…