So the opening races of this season’s new-era Formula 1 saw Mercedes-AMG perform so badly that team principal Toto Wolff declared it “unacceptable”. Although they are rare, this is not…

Forty years on, remember the tumultuous F1 season of 1982? It boasted a larger cast of leading characters than usual – almost anyone could win. Any team which did not…

This year absolutely bulges with anniversaries, and one of the most spectacularly exciting Formula 1 races ever run took place on May 12, 1962. The 14th BRDC International Trophy at…

Amongst all the world's greatest classic cars there can be no doubt that, in general perception, the confined group of Ferrari 250 GTOs reigns supreme. Some might argue but as…

Only on rare occasions was a 250 GTO entered by the works Ferrari team. They were most often run by Enzo’s official concessionaires and a band of privateers – albeit…

Sixty years ago, a car regarded by many as the greatest road racer of all time was launched. And this month – March 1962 – it made its competitive debut…

This new year sees a big anniversary for mainstream racing car design in general – and for Lotus in particular. At this time of the year in 1962, Colin Chapman…

Ever since the ‘rear-engined revolution’ – which Cooper led through 1957-60 – the immense majority of truly purebred racing cars have had the engine behind the driver. The beneficial reasons…

At the end of a year in which Honda of Japan have shone so brightly in Formula 1, let’s spool back some 30 years to the Group C World Sportscar…

Today, the thorny question of fossil-fuel replacement is justifiably at the forefront of our thoughts. By 1901 a number of competitions and trials had already been held with the object…

In my last couple of years at school before motor racing’s lure proved irresistible, I used to cycle at weekends to the rifle ranges at Bisley, where I’d work as…

It’s hard to believe it’s 30 years since world-class endurance racing virtually died on its feet. Only eight FIA World Sportscar Championship rounds were run in 1991, and in general…