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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…
Mika Häkkinen is another returnee to the Formula 1 category of the Hall of Fame. He's joined by 11 other nominations who you can find out about on the F1 podcast…
Aston Martin Festival to precede Le Mans 24 Hours, with pair of Vulcans entered A pair of Aston Martin Vulcans will contest the Aston Martin Festival race, which acts as…
Twenty years ago Arie Luyendyk set the track record at Indianapolis by averaging 236.986 mph over four qualifying laps that took 2 minutes 31.908 seconds. The 1996 Indy 500 was…
I only know one politician and we were chums long before he felt the call of his party. He is, at least as I write in this election week, the…