Proper racing drivers are often characterised by psychologists as being ‘high-attainment individuals’. That doesn’t always make them likeable, truthful, straightforward or honest enough for Rover Scout status. Team managers over…

Shaking the trees at Oulton Park In 1958 Peter Collins and Tony Brooks gave young fans a breathtaking glimpse of the pre-war era While the sight of the ‘Silver Arrows’…

In the lean years following WWII ‘free formula racing’ helped to keep motor sport alive. The time is ripe for a renaissance… Free formula racing – Formule Libre – used…

When the mist lifted Gregor Grant’s reports of David Piper’s crash at a foggy Snetterton in 1964 caused a minor panic Gregor Grant, founding editor of Autosport magazine, was a…

Overall, Sebastian Vettel's second consecutive World Championship-winning season was rather less predictable than its outcome might suggest. Most races were quite close and exciting. They were, as Mr Ecclestone sometimes…

The Fuel-Injection Triumph TR5 PI On October 3rd last year Standard-Triumph announced the latest model in their successful range of TR sports cars, this one being christened the Triumph TR5…

While the 1953 Carrera Panamericana regulations demanded the fitting of seat belts in closed cars, such devices remained a source of contention well into the 1960s. Some early American racers…

Jackie Stewart is to drive the Ford Museum’s ex-Jim Clark 1965 Indy-winning Lotus 38 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Even with long weeks to go he was thoroughly pumped…

On a freezing cold and drippy wet Sunday in January, the little Georgian market town of Farnham – on the Surrey-Hampshire border – is usually very quiet. For me it’s…

Forty-two years ago the fourth string to Col Hoare’s Le Mans bow carried off an unexpected trophy – and is still flying his colours I will admit it – bawling…

That’s what the papers at first called the blond kid from Farnham when he swapped a pre-war Riley for one of Cooper’s latest single-seaters and began to make waves This…

An irresistible opportunity to take a pedigree Mercedes to the Goodwood hill’s summit Late on Sunday afternoon at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, I was offered a drive in one…