In the days before the ‘winter sun’ of the Springbok and Tasman series’ of the 1950s-’60s, hardier European racing types rugged up and headed north to get their off-season fix.…
Clean-living Ab Jenkins set record after record at Bonneville between the 1930s and 1950s. With an eye for publicity and meticulous approach, he made the salt flats the home of the land speed record
He could drawl and he could haul. Texan Lloyd Ruby talked slowly but drove quickly and in many judges’ estimations rivals Michael Andretti as the best never to drink the…
Dad – a Vintage Sports-Car Club regular in our everyday chain-drive Frazer Nash – was my first motorsporting hero. My second was a square-jawed multiple Formula 1 world champion called…
There are many strands to the backstory to Romain Grosjean’s escaping his 56g fireball in Bahrain on Sunday. The 9kg titanium halo has garnered the bulk of the headlines as…
Ken Miles is a nominee for this year's Motor Sport Hall of Fame Awards, which are decided by readers. Scroll down to read more or click below to vote for…
Mark Donohue is a nominee for this year's Motor Sport Hall of Fame Awards, which are decided by readers. Scroll down to read more or click below to vote for…
It had been a learning year for Henri Toivonen. Another one. His abundant promise had been there for all to see since his fifth place on the 1977 Rally of…
Jeez, who’d be the other guy? Neither basking in reflected glory nor withering in the shade is a good look/outlook for an ambitious Formula 1 driver. Imagine spending another long,…
Mick Schumacher’s presenting of one of his father’s crash helmets in touching tribute to Lewis Hamilton at the Nürburgring on Sunday was also a reminder that eras come and go,…
It is apposite that Jean Alesi never raced a V10 Ferrari. The French-Sicilian was a throwback whose heart ruled his head. Michael Schumacher, in contrast, was sent from the future:…
See, I told you that Peter Whitehead was a significant figure in Grand Prix history. But for this English privateer, Ferrari would this weekend in Mugello be celebrating ‘only’ its…
