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It’s not often a music group gains the endorsement of motor-sporting legends, but both Walter Röhrl and Olaf Manthey have loaned their support to a new piece by soft-rock band…

Alex Lynn was as surprised as anyone when he lost his Sebring 12 Hours team-mate Kevin Magnussen to Formula 1 in the run-up to the Florida classic last weekend. As…

The French pitcrew couldn’t work out how Richard Brooks was repeatedly roaring past the pits with lit cigarette in hand, all while tackling the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours. It…

NASCAR, IMSA and the ACO have announced that a Next Gen Cup car will compete at Le Mans in 2023

Could you be on the Glickenhaus Le Mans pitwall via virtual reality? It's founder thinks it could be soon be possible

I first heard of Vic in 1962 through my world-class rally navigator friend, also from Burnley, Mike Wood, when he declared “this fellow Elford’s pretty quick”! In 1967 I followed…

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