The greatest race of all? A gathering of two or more like-minded enthusiasts usually generates fierce debate about epic battles on the track. What’s your favourite? On a recent flight…

Sir Jack Brabham could not attend the Festival of Speed but his sometime team-mate, sometime rival and enduring friend Dan Gurney was seated at lunch in the Drivers’ Club when…

From the sublime to the ahem not quite so stupendous, I have just fallen heir to a fascinating little cache of early Cooper photographs. Among them are some shots of…

The Group C years of endurance racing through the 1980s were packed with interest for anyone who likes proper racing – rather than mere 90-minute sprints. The designs of car…

Privateer racer Dr Tony Goodwin didn’t let RAF Service stand the way of his racing exploits, as his new book recalls Back in the late 1960s and early '70s, I…

The famous 1908 Itala, liberated from decay in a pub shed in the 1930s by an RAF pilot, comes up for auction in its 104th year On Sunday, May 17,1936…

Beaulieu offers UK enthusiasts another chance to appreciate speed-record talisman In the build-up to the Goodwood Festival of Speed I was as excited as I ever get by the prospect…

Spitfire frolics above the Goodwood estate are nothing new, but one of this year’s pre-Revival flypasts had an extra touch of poignancy Writing this, still in the soggy and arthritic…

Bathurst victor Win Percy received a hero’s welcome on a recent trip Down Under. Sure enough, an energetic drive followed… It’s more than six years now since a ghastly example…

How Jack Sears and the big Ford Galaxie changed the shape of British tin-top racing back in 1963 Touring car racing, especially since the 1980s, has left me absolutely stone…

From 1953 to 1965minus a spot of National Service Terry Kitson was one of that generally happy band of Cooper Car Company staff, in their famous Surbiton factory, just south-west…

This is bound to upset some of the faithful, but I’m afraid I never quite ‘got’ the Gilles Villeneuve ‘thing’. You know, the adulation which dripped from every line of…