“Why doesn’t somebody tell Pedro it’s raining?” Motor racing’s great leveller is not always so. Just ask Chris Amon. The talented New Zealander could only flounder in wonder as Pedro…
The late Max Mosley’s first racing wish was the usual one: to become Formula 1 world champion. He would get as far as Formula 2 – and there in short…
David Sutton was a man for whom anything was possible – Ari Vatanen remembers how his old team boss masterminded the unlikely 1981 WRC title win with a smile on his face
Danny Sullivan ‘crashed’ at the Tyrrells' long before he drove for them in Formula 1. “Ken and Nora’s was the first place I stayed in the UK,” he says. That…
It is reckoned that 100 million were printed. STP stickers adorned everything and anything – from Formula 1 to the Soap Box Derby, racing powerboats to snowmobiles, and your Dad’s…
“It was 1974. Just a little rally. Not even a part of the Finnish Championship. And he was a big star with charisma. So it was a surprise when he…
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…
