Never one to take the easy road, Lawrence is probably best known for his successes with Morgans. Having started out racing in the mid-50s with one of the Malvern marque's…

Enigmatic doesn't come close. A loner, with long hair and Zapata moustache, spends a decade roaming North America, a nomad with a van and a compass but no clock as…

The old adage that 'nice guys finish last' isn't strictly true, but they rarely finish first. To succeed in motor sport at a high level requires steel-plated self-belief. That and…

Al Axelrod/Brian Winer/Wallace Wyss The first page we read – purely at random – featured a sidebar in which one Andrew Frankel’s assertion that the first-generation GT40 was British is…

First in a new series: a British marque celebrates its half-century by reintroducing the car that was a smash hit in the ’60s By Richard Heseltine Same old, same new.…

Were someone to achieve something similar today, their accomplishment would likely be obscured by a blizzard of hype. But it was different then. Taken out of context, Eric Thompson’s World…

OSCA was formed by the Maserati brothers to fight the company they gave their name to. Richard Heseltine tells the tale, and drives one The red sticker on the tacho…

Labelled a ‘lame duck’ by some, the powerful Dolly was nevertheless a motor sport success, particularly trackside. And the Triumph faithful still love it… By Richard Heseltine For much of…

It's all going wrong. Once known as 'The Miler' due to its success on one-mile sprint circuits, this wondrous Hudson has just given up the ghost after roughly half that…

Michael Hewett Another day, another picture book, but that’s not to denigrate this hefty 352-page hardback. A year-by-year account of the great race, there’s minimal text, much of it in…

  Like all well-worn accounts it’s probably only half accurate, but it makes for a good yarn nonetheless. Early in 1966, an agent acting on behalf of Enzo Ferrari approached…

Ford’s Mustang, its fastest-selling car since the Model A, still leads the field in historic events around the world By Richard Heseltine The Mustang represented the high watermark of 1960s…