Back then it looked vast, a Yankee aircraft carrier of a machine beside a Cortina or even a Jaguar Mk2. Now, alongside a mid-sized European saloon with its bulging safety…

Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks Brian Redman with Jim Mullen Brian Redman’s long awaited racing biography is a cracker. Frank, outspoken, amusing and often sad, it’s not only a colourful picture of…

Voting has closed for the 2016 Motor Sport Hall of Fame and we’re delighted to reveal the top three nominees you have chosen for each of the five categories.  The…

Tough, pragmatic and thoughtful, Brian Redman is one of Britain’s greatest racing drivers. In this extract from his long-awaited memoirs he considers Spa, the pinnacle of road-racing where he took…

The spirit of Swallow My thanks to Gordon Cruickshank for his fine review of the memorable Flywheel story. I covered the 1987 launch of the title for Motor Cycle News…

We’re a bit overwhelmed with James Bond right now, what with a new film and the Aston Martin DB10 created especially for it. Yet what many don’t realise is that…

The Rise and Fall of the French Alpine Rally Martin Pfundner To some of us there’s nothing more evocative than a photo of a car – even a sluggardly side-valve…

The doors are open to the 2016 Motor Sport Hall of Fame – and it’s up to you to decide which great figures from the past and present pass through…

Michael MacDowel Popular competitor Michael MacDowel has died aged 83. He had a long career in the sport and was a double British hillclimb champion in the 1970s. MacDowel started…

GERMAN WORKMANSHIP 
 Sir, 
I am English, married with one child and wor_ in an automobile plant as an assembly fitter. Nothing in fact very unusual about that, except that I work…

Too late to record last month, it was sad to learn of the death of David H. Murray, which severs another link with the old "Chain-Gang" and Frazer Nash-BMW world.…

This is the story of Mike Hailwood, European F2 champion, F1 podium finisher and one of the finest riders ever to grace a racing motorcycle  Read Mike the bike Read…