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The month in Motor Sport
March 16: The British Touring Car Championship secures major sponsorship from Auto Trader magazine. 16: Peter Warr is replaced as…
May 1993
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Matters of moment, May 1993
It was worth the effort... When Donington Park's name originally appeared, somewhat unexpectedly, on the Grand Prix calendar, there were…
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Obituary
Alan Kulwicki AIan Kulwicki's success in the 1992 Winston Grand National Cup was the stuff of dreams. A NASCAR debutant…
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Cardinal Senna
Prost dominated, but when the rains came it was Senna who stole the show to rack up McLaren's 100th victory…
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1993 European Grand Prix: Opportunity knocked for Senna
There have been some opportunist moves in Formula One over the years – Jacky Ickx passing Niki Lauda round the…
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Delirium Tremens
How the Grand Prix of Europe was won. Ayrton Senna won the first postwar Grand Prix at Donington Park, but…
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In celebration of Jimmy
Throughout the first weekend in April, Duns, Berwickshire, was buzzing. Commercial Street was choked with traffic. Formula One Lotuses, Super…
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Formula One Grands Prix
Dear reader, I am writing this on the eve of the European Grand Prix, to be held at Donington Park…
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In the beginning
Silverstone International Trophy 1954 "I only touched the tyres..." It is interesting how many readers saw and heard their first…
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No such thing as a certainty...
When is a U-turn not, officially, a U-turn? Er, when it's practised by FISA, apparently. A few weeks ago, Formula…
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Back to front?
After the thorny question of 'what car should I buy?', the oldest motoring debate is that concerning the merits of…
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Desert rates
Many are the pilgrims. Light-aircraft enthusiasts go to Oshkosh, yachtsman to Cowes and, in halcyon days, the Isle of Man…
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Going AMOL
The last six-cylinder Aston Martin to be made, a DBS, passed through the assembly area at Newport Pagnell in 1972,…
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Vital statistics
At the heart of the DB7 is a 3.2-litre supercharged six-cylinder engine which develops 335 bhp at 5600 rpm and…
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Key personnel
Aston Martin Oxford Limited is established in much the same way as JaguarSport, and is a parallel operation at Bloxham.…
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Production plot
The Aston Martin DB7 will be built as a follow-on to the Jaguar XJ220 in a converted mill at Bloxham,…
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Gentle giant
It has been years since we cajoled a Bentley or Rolls-Royce away from Crewe for anything other than the briefest…
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The pleasure principle
The basis on which Lotus will return to international GT racing and, at £64,995, the summit of the Esprit line…
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Plugging the gap
The senior Rover 800 saloons and hatchbacks have been doing a wonderful job for British Aerospace's car division in the…
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Coarser Corsa
Reach for those earplugs. Vauxhall's Nova replacement has arrived. The old name has been ditched in favour of the Corsa…
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