When I was young, our family car was… A Packard. My father was a motor trader so we had lots of different cars. He’d buy the cars in Glasgow and…

Back in the mid-1990s, Sir Jackie Stewart convinced Ford to finance the creation of his own Formula 1 team. Following three seasons and one victory – for Motor Sport columnist…

The 2001 WRC programme began with the Monte Carlo Rally. Although we know that Richard Burns would take the title for Subaru this year, his drive in the snow-encrusted trails…

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What a great picture of Tom Walkinshaw in the Pentax Cameras BMW 530i at the British Grand Prix support race in July 1978 at Brands Hatch, shown in Parting Shot…

Ferrari’s new British signing for its Hypercar programme has spoken of how he is inspired by his hero John Surtees. James Calado, was announced as part of the Ferrari squad…

Joest, Kremer, Richard Lloyd, John Fitzpatrick… where would Group C have been without the great Porsche customer teams who were let off the leash to race, and sometimes beat, the…

Shelsley Walsh’s annual Classic Nostalgia event will feature a host of headline anniversary celebrations this year, including a special event to mark 65 years of the British Touring Car Championship…

Sakhir, Bahrain, March 3-5 Bahrain hosting the season opener is becoming the norm with the Middle Eastern country now kicking off the season for a third consecutive year. Since its…

Imola, 4th: George Russell qualifies only 11th and finishes the sprint race in the same position. But in the main event he makes a good start on the damp track…

Fifty years after Emerson Fittipaldi raced the Lotus 72 to a drivers’ and constructors’ championship double, he and every example of the legendary car have returned to Hethel. Guests, including…

Can it really be 30 years since John Surtees, Ron Dennis, Damon Hill and our own Denis Jenkinson joined a few thousand car fans outside a stately home in Sussex…