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To passers-by at Baron's Court underground station, two days before Christmas 1985, he was just an elderly man, but by his appearance not a local one. That he had seen…

He’d faced down danger before but this was different: not only Plan A but Plans B, C, and D had been exhausted. The right rear rubber had detonated just past…

The first pure-bred Mercedes-Benz racer for 35 years. A World Championship winner. The car that gave us Michael Schumacher. The machine that laid the foundation stone of the German manufacturer’s…

You'd never have guessed you were witnessing the start of something big. It was an inauspicious debut by anyone's standards. Smoke and steam poured from the stubby, strange-looking machine that…

I knew nothing of Denis Jenkinson until I published a letter from him in Motor Sport, but when we met at the RAF during the war, he as an engineer…

We are celebrating this year the 50th anniversary of the British Grand Prix of the modern era, leaving aside the Brooklands races of 1926-27 and the Donington ones – on…

Being a racing driver is, essentially, a selfish activity. Notwithstanding all that Jacky Ickx had to say on these pages last month, and however much the man in the cockpit…

It was the beginning of 1988 and I'd done a total of about six F3000 races and a handful of F3 races before that. I hadn't done a full season…

The man is dressed all in blue. Artisan smock top, jeans and trainers. Stylish in a French kind of way. The long legs, the beaky nose and the slightly nervous…

One of the most fascinating scenes in the film Grand Prix is the GPDA meeting at Spa, in which actors James Garner, Yves Montand and Antonio Sabato mix it with…

Ray Rowe joined Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd at its lock-up garage in Chessington in April 1965. And he’s still working for Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes at the McLaren Technology Centre in…

Life, for Stirling Moss, continues at 150 mph, a series of bends and obstacles to be taken at maximum throttle. But instead of balancing a Maserati 250F, a Vanwall, a…

Sir Stirling Moss: Works driver, 1954 Those who drove the D-type in period have mixed feelings about the car. And perhaps because he drove it during its development phase —…

A switch in management at Skol beer 25 years ago had the biggest effect on the destiny of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. Eh? Come on, that's got you!…

Ford's decision to abandon Formula 1 has created a cloud of uncertainty, not just over Jaguar — up for sale to the highest bidder — but also the teams who…

Pescarolo Sport had garage number one at Le Mans this year, pole position in one of the world’s most recognisable pitlanes. The French team enjoyed this honour thanks to its…

Johnny Servoz-Gavin rather shook everyone at Monaco in 1968. Subbing for an injured Jackie Stewart, he qualified Ken Tyrrell's Matra second, behind Graham Hill's Lotus. An archetypal '60s figure, Servoz-Gavin…