Frank Gardner doesn’t believe in giving interviews, particularly if they involve looking back on his eventful and versatile motor racing career. “If you look over your shoulder,” he says dismissively,…

Brands Hatch, October 26-27: some fresh pep for an old favourite. It was the first time in years that I'd attended the once-compulsory Formula Ford Festival, my appetite having been…

At last! The Formula One carousel is about to turn once more. Melbourne is almost upon us. Misleading testing times, bland press releases, optimistic half-truths and gloating rumour ("the new…

Now's the time for people who noticed Fernando Alonso's prowess in his first grand prix, in Australia with Minardi back in 2001, to say they told us so. He was…

Modern times It's not fair. Here I am pounding my keyboard a few hours before jumping on the jumbo to Melbourne, and there you are reading the result of my…

Modern times This is the last time that Modern Times will appear in its current form. As you can read in Editor Feamley's announcement elsewhere in this issue, from next…

FIA President Max Mosley's efforts to reduce Formula One's galloping costs put me in mind of King Canute, who famously sat on his throne on the seashore and commanded the…

Formula One is meant to have an off-season. That's why the FIA bans all track activity for a specified period during the winter. This year's ban lasted just 43 days,…

It was the nearest England ever got to hosting a true road race. Sixty years on we visit Derbyshire to try out a track that might have been By Simon…

He’s overseen title-winning cars, engineered Senna and Schumacher, but the memory of Singapore 2008 remains painful… In the intense, rarefied world of Formula 1 a driver has to deal with…

LE MARATHON DE LA ROUTE Police regulations are increasingly curbing the plans of Continental rally organisers, but by running an event which was almost three thousand miles long and by…

The most prolific driver in British motor sport can’t remember how many races he’s done. But Simon Taylor finds Barrie can tell a story about almost every one Photography: James…