Mike Spence biography review: A gentleman on and off the track
This is the second time Richard Jenkins has struck a hitherto neglected subject, the driver who oddly hasn’t had a full biography so far. (I can think of one other…
He is both an expression of disbelief and a name on a racing trophy, but in our world we don’t hear much more about the man called Gordon Bennett. This…
Back in the depths of Covid despair last Christmas, we launched a competition to win a limited-run Archive Edition of Nigel Trow’s Maserati: The Family Silver, worth £12,950. It is…
He was part of the broadcasting landscape for more than 50 years and his celebrity extended far beyond the sport that made him famous. Murray Walker published his own autobiography…
The story of Romain Grosjean's survival in the Bahrain GP fireball is told from both his and his wife's perspective in an emotive new biography: Facing Death
Once upon a time it was the original Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost which was the most famous car in the world, but Aston Martin stole that crown when it slipped one…
Lockdown has produced many self-starter projects; few of them can have had such impressive outcomes. This is the story of a car, one single car, but of a rare breed…
A daunting task, describing every F1 Ferrari, yet Stuart Codling manages to make his list of every model of grand prix contender (to use a phrase which avoids a definition…
Speculation had ended on Monday September 23, 1996 when it was revealed that Murray Walker would be ITV’s main Formula 1 commentator. The announcement was made by MACH1, a trading…
With its aggressive nose the Breadvan Ferrari is usually seen as a quasi- GTO, but as author Richard Heseltine explains in this book, it started life as a plain 250GT…
Shadow — The magnificent machines of a man of mystery Pete Lyons Terrific tale about the mysterious and controversial Don Nichols and the cars he created, by a writer who…
If I went in for judging by covers, I’d be smiling on this with its lovely speckle-bronze finish, and the fact that it’s packed with Alfa Romeos is for me the…
A bold assertion, the word ‘definitive’, but such is the subtitle of this production, and if its two hefty volumes don’t back up the claim then something is wrong. No…
Daniel Cabart already has an impressive track record with Delage – in 2017 he was awarded the RAC Specialist Book of the Year for his volume on the marque’s 1926-…
How about calling it the Lamborghini Lidia? We’re glad they didn’t. The story of the Lamborghini Miura is now explored and celebrated like never before in this new work If…
Cover soundbites from Alexei Sayle and Robbie Coltrane tell you this has wider targets than the motoring field, but then as with his previous book High Performance Grimsdale brings wider…
THERE’S A PHOTO IN THIS HUGE and typically weighty offering from Porter Press that takes me back 35 years. It’s the dim interior of a barn with a row of…