Aston Martin chases Le Mans victory
It’s official: Aston Martin is heading back to Le Mans in an audacious attempt to take an overall win, exactly 50 years after its one and only victory in the…
The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series couldn’t have asked for a more perfect start to the season at Daytona over the weekend. A tremendous duel to the chequered flag between…
The American racing season kicks off in just two weeks at Daytona with the Rolex 24-hour race and many of the teams assembled this past weekend for a three-day test…
No doubt most of you will have used a PlayStation or something similar before. Whatsmore, because you’re on Motor Sport’s website, I would be so bold as to say that…
At the end of last week Roger Penske officially announced what we’ve already reported in the latest issue of Motor Sport. After three successful years racing a pair of Porsche…
The American racing season gets under way every year at Daytona with what is now known as the Rolex 24 at the end of January. But everyone is wondering what…
Last week I enjoyed a long chat with Jim Hall, the creator of the legendary Chaparral Can-Am (below with Jim driving) and long-distance sports cars from the sixties. Those cars…
I have long suffered from a fascination with Mexico. In the days of the Mexican Grand Prix I was sadly not yet on the roster of those that might be…
Champion Racing’s Audi Sport North America team finished the American Le Mans Series season in style at Laguna Seca last weekend by winning its seventh race of the year and…
Allan McNish drove a superb race at Road Atlanta last Saturday to win the Petit Le Mans for Audi with team-mates Dindo Capello and Emanuele Pirro. The Scot made a…
The Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta has become one of America’s biggest sports car races. Next weekend’s eleventh running of the 1000Km or 10-hour enduro is expected to draw…
If you had to name a marque that was totally immersed in racing you might say Ferrari with it’s Formula 1 exploits and F430 racing, or maybe Porsche with its…
What a weekend that was! You just didn’t know where to look next! There was young Sebastian Vettel in the rain at Monza, proving what a lot of people have…
I enjoyed a couple of very pleasant days last weekend at Lime Rock in North-western Connecticut. Lime Rock is the only remaining serious road course in New England or the…
Isn’t life strange? This week, in the sporting headlines, we have Schumacher the cyclist and Rooney the runner. How long before Hamilton the hurdler? Stefan Schumacher pulverised the opposition in…
There’s fact, and then there’s opinion. Rarely are the two the same. By means of a wholly inadequate segue, take the Porsche 914. When it was new, motoring hacks couldn’t…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ANWkANvoo[/youtube] Having recently gone to visit Jason Bruges, an artist who previously trained as an architect, I wrote a small piece in the latest edition of Motor Sport about his…