Ultimate '80s high-tech supercar The real proof of a new thoroughbred's pedigree has been amply demonstrated at Ferrari's test track, Fiorano. Handled by one of the company's test drivers, the…

Streets ahead The Detroit Grand Prix hammered home the same message we have been hearing since the start of the 1987 season — namely that there are now three distinct…

Audi's superb Quattro —4-wd appeal—but so much else as well While some new cars are heralded by an enormous publicity build up which subsides into anti-climax when the cars themselves…

Vittorio Brambilla, the wild man of Italian motor racing in the 1970s, succumbed to a heart attack while gardening at his home in Monza on the afternoon of the Monaco…

If one considers that any Grand Prix racing driver is, in terms of basic talent, comfortably within the top ten per cent of the exponents of the art of motor…

Following in the style of Niki Lauda Ever since the World Championship for Drivers was instituted in 1950 the business of scoring points in order to take the title has frequently…

Dramas favour Scheckter Mosport Park, October 9th Although plans are afoot to transfer the Canadian Grand Prix to a makeshift "road" circuit round the Canadian National Exhibition Centre in the…

Ferrari's book of excuses has reached the last full stop on the final page — it's no never. Schumacher and this new car aim to make it now. Alan Henry…

Not a Lotus Day Watkins Glen, October 1st The United States Grand Prix, held at Watkins Glen, used to be one of the newer events on the calendar, starting in…

Hunt triumphs in the wet Watkins Glen, New York, October 2nd. The Formula One circus moved to North America at the end of September for the 15th and 16th rounds…

Regazzoni wins the street fight Long Beach, California, March 27th After all the controversy and discussion over safety facilities at Barcelona and Monte Carlo, and opinions expressed in high places…

A few weeks ago we were given the opportunity to try out one of Volkswagen's three-door "Formel E" Polos, fitted with the very high overdrive fourth gear which is supposed to…