Lola got the jump on McLaren in the 'big banger' stakes with its beautiful, well-balanced T70 coupe. John Surtees used one to win at Mosport, St Jovite and Brands Hatch…

Roberto Ravaglia collects touring car titles like Rupert Murdoch does media outlets. In the second half of the 1980s the Venetian was the undisputed saloon car king, winning consecutive European,…

The cheek of it. There is nothing wrong with a Peugeot 306 per se, but this one was a particularly tatty, extremely dusty example that happened to be wedged in…

Bill Elliott was the man in 1985, no doubt about it. But canny Waltrip emerged as the champ, his third and last Winston Cup title. Ford-mounted Elliott reigned supreme on…

It was the charmlessness of it. Just imagine if junior partner Barrichello had swerved aside to allow the catalyst of the team's renaissance his just deserts after four barren seasons.…

”Is crash. Is frightening. Is fast. Is funny." Giampiero Simoni's grasp of English may be marginal but no one bettered the young Alfa Romeo driver's summation of the British Touring…

Oulton Park would make a lovely upmarket private housing estate: a select few seven-figure houses dotted around a swathe of prestigious rolling Cheshire parkland, its lake filled with trout (not…

Away from the limelight of the World Championship, these races sometimes ran at unusual venues, with drivers determined to gain recognition. In the first of a series, we pick out…

Bill Lear’s Indycar may have had its doubters, but Jackie Stewart was persuaded to take a look Nobody could accuse Lear of aiming low. His preferred Vapordyne drivers? Parnelli Jones…

Ever decreasing circles As the demands of F1 grew in the 1970s and ’80s, so the number of non-championship races shrank. Yet right to the end, such events still provided…

There used to be a time when Ferrari couldn't hit a barn door from three paces. They were publicly loved, privately ridiculed — all that money, all that failure. These…

There are numerous cars greater than the sum of all their parts. There are few, though, infinitely greater. And this is one of them. From its Unipart-sourced pressure cap to…