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It seems strange that the latest Ford GT and the first Ford GT40 are separated by over half a century. Spool back another 50 years or so from the original…

When 18 dirt Champ Cars took the green flag at the California State Fairgrounds in Sacramento in 1970 and arced through the first turn in long, graceful power-slides, it marked…

The overalls still fit and so, by definition, does the cockpit. Thirty years on from the most successful season of his racing career, Kenny Acheson is easing back behind the…

It was a momentous decision. The Team Sauber Mercedes entries in the 1989 World Sports Car Championship would run as Silver Arrows, just like the W125 grand prix cars before…

Colin Chapman was used to ringing the bell, to being the king of the hill. Through the 1960s and into the 1970s his Formula 1 car concepts most consistently set…

A ston Martin has just launched perhaps the most evocative so called continuation model ever in the DB4 GT Zagato. The car is tested in these pages and offers a…

First, the facts: 40 years ago on 17 December, Barrett – a Hollywood stunt man with no motor sport experience – wriggled into the cramped cockpit of a long, slender…

In a sport where there can only be one winner, it’s natural that rivalries develop when two different factions are battling to become top dog. The duel over the alpha…

From 1946 to 1951 – for an entire generation of fans – Alfa Romeo’s works Grand Prix car – the immortal ‘Alfetta’ – set the gold standard. Through that period…

That muddled triumph of 1966, when three Ford MkIIs bellowed across the line at La Sarthe to claim victory for the Blue Oval without knowing who was first, forms the…

His career stats are quirky – 49 grand prix starts and only three points finishes, two of those being victories – but they encapsulate Jean-Pierre Jabouille’s role to perfection. He…

The crowd is pretty much what one would expect at Brands Hatch for a Friday test session – negligible, but for a knot of spectators gathered behind one particular pit…

They were all just stories. They had to be. Of course a Porsche 917/30 would not actually spin its rear wheels at over 120mph. I mean, have you seen those…

He might be unfamiliar to the wider world, but Ralph Firman is one of the most distinguished figures in British motor racing. If you bought a car from him in…

The line of Patrick Head-masterminded Formula 1 Williams-Cosworth FW07s proved to be the most effective successors to the Lotus 78-79 series’ legacy of ‘underwing’ ground-effect aerodynamic technology. Patrick had joined…

He was its biggest fish when motor sport’s pool was small but vitally fertile: the first American renowned purely for his skill and daring at the wheel. With trademark unlit…

The sun is breaking through to the east of Gleneagles railway station. There’s the occasional car passing on the A9, 200 metres to the west, but it’s quiet enough to…