I didn’t catch his surname, but at Goodwood a Motor Sport reader named John told me emphatically that a Ferrari was going to win in Malaysia. Vettel or Räikkönen? He was less…
Vintage Sports Car Club, Oulton Park, June 18 1977 At the time there were fears of perhaps terminal decline. Oulton Park, one of the world’s best inventions, had been sliced…
The Spa Six Hours. Sounds glamorous doesn’t it? Sounds like it should be stock full of low slung slices of exotica staffed by snake-hipped professional drivers who’ve just passed their…
Michael Lyons was the star of the FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship at Zandvoort (August 29-31) taking two wins in his Hesketh 308E. The event was another huge success,…
By David Brabham Photos: PSP Images Looking back over the last weekend at the Silverstone Classic, I have very mixed emotions. On the one hand it was a great event,…
If ever proof was needed that for some people, things come all too easily, then look no further than the case of one Stirling Moss. In 1961 he secured his…
The practice periods An account of the practice sessions will be found on pages 465-6. It is suggested that these pages be digested before this race report. So the RAC…
As you may have read, Jaguar announced last week that it’s going to build the six ‘missing’ lightweight E-types, which is another way of saying that back in 1963 they…
On Wednesday, June 4 at 7.30pm, Hexagon Modern Classics in Haringey is hosting an evening of discussion with four motor sport greats in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Gaby…
Ed Foster in Paul Latimer's early MGB racer in the one-hour, two-driver Moss Trophy at the 72nd Goodwood Members' Meeting. Despite neither driver having raced at Goodwood, they came home…
The Goodwood gardeners have been busy. Ahead of next weekend’s new event at the famous old race track in Sussex they planted more than 300,000 daffodils. And very pretty they…
Anger is brewing in the historic racing community over a decision by the FIA to render invalid at the end of this year all Historic Technical Passports issued before 2011.…
When the highlights of this year’s Goodwood Revival make it onto the telly, viewers will fast forward to the moment in the St Mary’s Trophy when Frank Stippler driving an…
What do you think of Concours d’Elegance? I ask because while through my day job testing road cars and sitting on the Car of the Year jury I get to…
At this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed Bonhams auctioned Juan Manuel Fangio's Mercedes W196 for a record-breaking £17.5 million. Here's the historic moment.
I begin this dispatch with a Mental Health Warning. The following paragraphs do not contain mention of the round, black products produced by an Italian supplier to Grand Prix racing.…
