I have just unearthed a part-forgotten 60-year-old Ford GT file covering the original development programme of 1963-64. The basics are familiar. America’s Ford Motor Company had been rebuffed in its…

A hugely impressive McLaren Old Boys’ and Girls’ 60th Anniversary bash highlighted early November, organised by former team staffers Matthew Jeffreys and Richard West, attended by nearly 350 McLaren veterans…

Way back around 1959-60 I recall it was my big brother who first pointed me towards this magazine. “It tells you more about the cars than the others”, he said,…

Breaking news! Pursuing its retrospective review of all past results the FIA has struck Sir Henry Segrave’s beach-set Land Speed records from its register. A spokesman explained “The Land Speed…

A late, lugubrious – but wise – friend of mine had a rather splendidly deflating line which he used on special occasions. He would consider the evidence of any argument,…

It’s incredibly irritating when asked to identify a racing car in an ageing photo, but try as you might the brain cells just will not retrieve the information. Recently I…

Carrera Panamericana: 1950-1954 Through the early 1950s the Mexican Carrera Panamericana proved itself to be the most inspiringly exotic, challenging – and positively dangerous – great public road race on…

Mille Miglia: 1927 - 1957 It has been asked, what did the Romans ever do for us? Around 29BC Agrippa had the Roman mile standardised at 1620 yards. Two millennia…

This motor sporting summer, with Ferrari once again winning Le Mans after 50 years and Max Verstappen matching – with notable ease – Ayrton Senna’s career total of 41 Grand…

May I make a confession? I increasingly fear I’m perhaps just a bit ‘slow on the uptake’. Or otherwise is it common to experience a sudden jolting realisation of quite…

Motor racing trophies embody an enormously wide range of aesthetic, commercial and cultural taste. How often has one seen an eye-popping podium presentation of some garish oversized fridge magnet to…

How nice it was – compensation for a fundamentally boring opening race of this year’s Formula 1 World Championship – to see the beaming 41-year-old Fernando Alonso back on the…