Nick Mason: ‘Ferrari for Italians is like the Spitfire for us’
Ferrari, for me, has always been all about a number of different things; the history, the sculptural look of the cars, the noise of those V12 engines, and they are…
Hollywood star Keanu Reeves made his pro racing debut at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in early October 2024, competing in a Toyota GR Cup North America event. The actor best…
Gordon Johncock sat on the outside of the front row of the grid for the 1967 Indianapolis 500, but he wasn’t confident about his prospects. He wasn’t especially worried about…
Once a firm fixture on the World Rally Championship calendar, the Tour de Corse was known in period as the ‘Ten Thousand Turns Rally’ due to its twisting route around…
Goodwood delivered another glorious Revival in September despite the best efforts of the elements to ruin the world’s greatest historic motoring extravaganza. Heavy rain on the opening day threatened a…
Pall Mall in the heart of London is the venue for a new motoring event that will be launched in the capital this autumn. The St James’s Motoring Spectacle, organised…
Sponsored by The Distinguished Gentleman’s Drive The Distinguished Gentleman’s Drive is the world’s biggest and most stylish annual on-road charity motoring event. It is a celebration of classic style, bringing…
In 2003 David Gooding was successfully making his way as a collector car broker when an unexpected phone call led to him running the auction at the Pebble Beach Concours.…
The Pebble Beach Concours is best known as the ultimate venue in which to see the world’s finest classic (i.e. ‘old’) cars in one place but, as concours chairperson Sandra…
Christmas Day, 1957. Several men stand outside a pub watching a Ford Consul arrive, pulling a trailer with a small racing car on it. They’re conniving in an illegal act,…
The numbers for one calendar year tell the story: a remarkable tally of 102 races and three rallies; 34 cars raced, both historic and modern, with 21 co-drivers; races on…
It’s a rarity so we should call it out when we see it: a small sliver of common sense has broken out in one of the key organisations that determines…
Thunder rolled over Goodwood’s 81st Members’ Meeting in April as 24 Can-Ams served up the audio highlight of another brilliant Sussex success melding famous names, great displays and sizzling racing…
This summer Santa Pod will mark the 60th anniversary of drag racing arriving in the UK. Dragstalgia will take place at the strip on July 5-7 to mark the diamond…
Think of Prodrive and what comes to mind? I’m guessing it’s Colin McRae in his blue and yellow Subaru leaving his WRC competitors for dust. But maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps…
As I was driving the Rolls-Royce Spectre, reviewed elsewhere in this issue, I found myself struck by a bad case of the what-might-have-beens, and it had little to do with…
As endorsements go, it’s a pretty good one. American driver Patrick Long has winners’ trophies from 24-hour races at Daytona, Le Mans and the Nürburgring as well as the Bathurst…