After the soaking wet Petit Le Mans at the start of October we had the long haul to Australia to make for the following weekend's Bathurst 1000 with Lucas Dumbrel…
Three years ago freelance archivist Richard Wiseman (below) was tasked with locating the missing rushes of Steve McQueen’s film Le Mans. He reckoned on a one per cent chance of…
A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here Click here to buy the above image From the editor Damien Smith How would you define…
Click here to buy the above image Last weekend, on the other side of the Pacific from Mexico, something remarkable happened. That Porsche won the Shanghai 6 Hours – the penultimate…
We lead on the inside story of an inside story in the new issue of Motor Sport. A new documentary on the making of Steve McQueen’s Le Mans will be…
Click here to buy the above image The last month has been hectic to say the least and there‘s no sign of an end to the rushing around just yet.…
There are a great many reasons why Stirling Moss is still the most famous racing driver on the planet, this despite Lewis Hamilton’s unstinting efforts to establish himself as what…
November 20, 2014 and we’re sat round a table in Carluccio’s restaurant in Bicester Village. The weather’s turning and Tom Onslow-Cole is telling me about his switch to full-time GT…
This year’s Ferrari 488 GTB uses a mid-mounted 3.9-litre V8. In that sense, it is traditional Ferrari fare. Not, however, if you were a devotee of the brand in the…
"Born in a gas station," Tom Kristensen had petrol in his veins from an early age. Despite a flirtation with banking, he went on to win the Le Mans 24…
As I sit here to write my final United SportsCar column of 2015 I’m struggling a little to stay fully awake and focused. Hopefully this isn’t because of the soporific…
Much has been made this week of Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy’s achievement at Road Atlanta on Sunday. It was certainly unique. The sight of a GT Porsche tracking down…
I had a birthday last week and it must have been a significant one because into my lap thumped my very own copy of the greatest work of research yet…
The Porsche 911 celebrated its 50th birthday in 2013. Much was made of the occasion and deservedly so – the 911 is a motor sport great, a consistently class-leading sports…
The weather at Road Atlanta for this year’s Petit Le Mans, the United SportsCar season finale, was abysmal. Days of persistent rain left the track and run-off areas totally waterlogged.…
The classified spotlight usually presents well-prepared, highly-polished machinery. Not so this week where rust, grime and dented body panels take centre stage. Despite its current condition, this week’s spotlight remains…
