One step back to take two forward? It’s easy to dismiss a return to the GT ranks as lost momentum when top-class prototypes are where you want to be, but…
If you could race it, Vic Elford would race it — fast. One of the most versatile drivers in motor sport history has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 86, after a career racing just about anything
If the biggest race in sports cars is your thing and you have a spare €6m (£5m) in the bank, then you might just want to shelve any holiday, DIY…
Peter Whitehead pitted his Cooper-Jaguar T38 at Le Mans in 1955 just after a catastrophic chain of events had catapulted Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR through the crowd at 6.26pm.…
"Happy hour 1.40pm – 1.40pm. Race… What race? Toothbrushes $25, AA meeting 1.41pm. Free beer.” It might not pull in the size of crowd that Le Mans does, but the…
One of the first plastic kits I remember building as a lad was John Surtees’ Can-Am Lola T70 spyder. Even then I loved the shape though I had yet to…
Skoda Motorsport may now be a big name in rallying, but it’s far from a recent department, and to celebrate its 120th anniversary (yes, you read that right) it has…
Just when you started to think the battle of the all-time rallying greats was finally going to happen, Sébastien Ogier confirms he will switch to the FIA World Endurance Championship…
It seems like a potential Aston Martin Le Mans programme comes around as regularly as the seasons these days but, almost exactly a year after the British brand shelved plans…
Aston Martin was going to fight for overall Le Mans victory with its Valkyrie hypercar, then cancelled its plans. But Andrew Frankel is hearing (and seeing) that the project may well be back on for 2023
When WEC introduced new engine rules Toyota decided to buck the trend – and created one of the most incredible power units motor sport has ever seen
Denis Jenkinson read the situation perfectly. In early 1962, as the dust settled following the ‘Palace Revolt’ in which a number of senior figures had left Maranello, Jenks wrote in…
Even after all these years, a purebred racing car still feels completely different. I have always been impressed by the wonders manufacturers can achieve when converting softly sprung road cars…
Fresh from hanging up his leathers, Valentino Rossi will swap to fireproof race suits after inking a deal with Audi Sport to contest this year’s GT World Challenge as he…
Peugeot appears adamant that it can successfully fly in the face of convention after releasing the first images of its 9X8Le Mans Hypercar testing in Spain, still without a rear…
Amongst all the world's greatest classic cars there can be no doubt that, in general perception, the confined group of Ferrari 250 GTOs reigns supreme. Some might argue but as…
