Through the Jordan Racing Team, father and son Mike, and Andrew Jordan both build and race Lotus Cortinas with success. Mike explains: “We’ve built 15 Lotus Cortinas since we stopped…
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September marked 60 years since the Ford Lotus Cortina made its competition debut. To celebrate that milestone, the world’s first all-Lotus Cortina race was a key element of April’s Members’…
Attention at this time of year three decades ago would turn to following the RAC Rally around the classic special stages in Britain’s forests. The problem would always be avoiding…
My family car as a child... The first one I remember was a Sunbeam-Talbot with a soft top. I recall being in the back seat when my father came across…
F1 Retro – August 2004 Over 20 years have passed since F1 had an Argentinian driver, and the world championship last graced Buenos Aires a quarter of a century ago.…
October 3, 1965 Watkins glen, US The very definition of an open paddock. Mechanics tend to cars in full view of the crowds ahead of the US Grand Prix. This…
German master Rainer W Shlegelmilch is best known for his photograhic work on the grand prix circuit, but a sumptuous new book, Porsche Racing Moments, collates his finest images from…
Aston Martin’s ownership structure and commercial fortunes have had more twists than a Federico Fellini movie in the 110 years since Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford commenced business. Perhaps the…
Forty-two years ago, staging a Formula 1 race in Las Vegas was yet another example of Bernie Ecclestone’s fabled ingenuity. By 1981, to be exporting Grand Prix racing to a…
My family car as a child... The first family cars I remember were a Ford Falcon and a Ford Fairlane. My father had a Ford dealership in Bankstown in Sydney.…
For nine successive years, the F1 season ended with Suzuka and Adelaide a fortnight apart. Sydney was a favourite place to spend the intervening weekend. This is the afternoon of…
February 7, 1960 Buenos Aires, Argentina A Scuderia Centro Sud mechanic employs a route-one solution to cool down Roberto Bonomi in his Cooper – a bucket of water. This was…
Somewhere in a parallel universe tractor maker Ferguson is held in the same esteem as those other tractor constructors Lamborghini and Porsche. And maybe in that world another tractor builder,…
The last-surviving Alvis grand prix car will take a star turn at the next Bicester Scramble on October 8, a week shy of the 96th anniversary of its only race.…
Here’s Thierry Boutsen calmly parking and stepping out of his Renault in the Mexico City pitlane in readiness for a day’s work. As if! Bernie Ecclestone wouldn’t allow road cars…
Think of the great Formula 1 champions and Jody Scheckter is unlikely to feature. But, writes Matt Bishop, the 1979 title-winner deserves more acclaim for a career in which he was once the best driver, bar none