Read part one of the interview here New South Walian engineer/mechanic Jim Smith had been with Team Lotus for less than a year when he was suddenly allocated to…
Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…
Had history been a benign guide rather than a harsh teacher, Kris Meeke might have followed the wheel tracks of fellow Northern Irishman Paddy Hopkirk and won a Monte Carlo…
Main image: Angela George It had to be De Niro. The Taxi Driver playing The Godfather of motor racing. A generation’s greatest actor has announced that his biopic of Enzo Ferrari will take precedence over…
José Froilán González did a good grumpy. His emotions tended to run close to the surface: the unbridled joy of winning the 1951 British Grand Prix; the inconsolable tears after…
Formula 1 was undeniably underwhelming Down Under. The lead battle in Melbourne was cagey rather than a cage fight; the rest were nowhere; and now everybody – not just Sauber…
Crock of gold or poisoned chalice? Outstandin’ opportunity or stand-in joke? Be warned: it can go from Badoer to Wurz. The former responded to a misplaced call from Ferrari in…
Graham Hill would have been 86 this week. His death 40 years ago robbed a family of a fun and loving father and husband, and British motor sport of…
The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is a FWD/AWD LMP1-H racer that meets FIA WEC and ACO criteria and features a 3-litre TTV6 IC engine with DI, in conjunction with an…
Niki Lauda is of the opinion that a 1000bhp-plus Formula 1 car (on durable slicks, nice and wide and big and fat) would resonate with a disillusioned public. He’s probably…
“Without a moment’s hesitation Jean-Pierre executed a perfect handbrake turn. In a great big Mercedes V8 saloon. In the wet. On a street of modest width. With cars parked either…
They’d said it would be over by Christmas. Yet by 1915 the vast Vickers ‘shed’, built in response to the spiralling mechanised demands of an already entrenched conflict, loomed over…
