Racing History

I was too young to see it race in its heyday, but the Porsche 917 has always had a special place in my heart. I guess it started in about…

“A brighter scene would be hard to imagine; sunshine, dresses, sumptuous cars, grass, trees, advertisements, and lastly the little green and blue projectiles themselves, such is the picture retained in…

The year was 1986. Porsche was powering McLaren to the Formula 1 World Championship; the mighty 962 would win that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours for the sixth time in…

I've had so many great rivals but I’m going back to my Formula 2 Superstox days from 1971 to ’74, racing with my dad and my Uncle Stan. It was…

Right now I’m remembering a very important year. It was 60 years ago, the summer of ’61, still a schoolboy, in my teens, sap rising – remember? Even then I…

We soon approach 50 years since Jo ‘Seppi’ Siffert won his final grand prix in Austria, just a few months before the Swiss suffered a tragic death at Brands Hatch.…

There were many highlights at this year’s Festival of Speed as we explain a little further on in this month’s magazine. But one thing that stood out and which it…

A permanent tribute to Murray Walker has been unveiled at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, remembering the legendary commentator who died in March. The commemorative plaque pays tribute…

The Brabham BT44B was Carlos Reutemann's favourite F1 car, according to Gordon Murray. As the car ran up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, its designer paid tribute to the Argentinian's natural talent

Stirling Moss preferred the C- to the D-type. The latter was tauter and faster – at Le Mans at least – but the former was more adaptable and kinder to…

“Why doesn’t somebody tell Pedro it’s raining?” Motor racing’s great leveller is not always so. Just ask Chris Amon. The talented New Zealander could only flounder in wonder as Pedro…

As Ayrton Senna dominated the field at Donington Park in 1993, a 13-year-old boy in the crowd stood next to his Dad in wonderment at the Brazilian's virtuoso display. The…

In 1991, the small Mazda car firm somehow slayed the giants of Mercedes, Jaguar, Peugeot with its iconic 787B to win Le Mans – the car's designer, Nigel Stroud, remembers the journey

It looked like nothing else on earth and cost a fraction as much as a comparable Ferrari. It wasn’t conceived with competition in mind, yet had scored its maiden race…

You may expect me to choose Jimmy Clark but I didn’t see him as a rival because he was ahead of me when I arrived in Formula 1 in 1965.…

Roger Penske is, quite simply, a giant of the sport, a restless and extreme achiever in a fiercely competitive business. He started out as a driver before moving from the…

Six pitstops, slowest-ever grand prix, longest–ever race duration and half a lap led – just how did Button do it? McLaren's former PR guru Matt Bishop recalls JB's finest [four] hour[s]