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A series in which Motor Sport’s features editor raids the loft to salvage grainy fragments from his racing past. Le Mans 24 Hours, June 10-11 1978 I’m not ashamed to admit…

Exactly 20 years ago, and at the grand old age of 28, I raced a car for the very first time. I mention this now because, as the season gets…

An hour with Emanuele Pirro was always going to be lively and the five-time Le Mans winner didn't disappoint. As well as inventing subscription offers, he talked about celebrating Goodwood…

While many actors have done some racing, just two bona fide Hollywood superstars ever got to race seriously and successfully somewhere near the top level of their chosen sphere of…

This year’s Sebring 12 Hours was a fierce race all the way with 10 different leaders and more than half a dozen cars capable of winning. In the end, it…

No other manufacturer has had a more profound effect on the history of sports car racing than Porsche. In endurance racing’s peak in the 1970s and ‘80s the Stuttgart firm…

If you’ve an idle 15 minutes any time soon, could I suggest you spend it watching the last 15 minutes of the Bathurst 12 Hour, held at the wondrous Mount Panorama…

The last 15 minutes of the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour race featured two fierce battles in the top four, setting the bar high for GT racing around the world this…

Will Porsche and Audi be allowed to fight to the finish at Le Mans this year? It is a question I am asked quite a lot at the moment as…

A new era in American sports car racing arrives at Daytona next weekend. The Rolex 24 Hours is the opening round of this year’s 12-race Tudor United SportsCar championship, a…

It’s not often you go out to dinner and find an ex-González works Ferrari Le Mans car on the guest list too. But that’s what happened last week when I…

Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd made its race debut half a century ago. In 10 short weeks thereafter it experienced the gamut of its glorious but gladiatorial era. Not only…

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The prospect is so tantalising, I will not be alone in wishing it to be true. If the rumours can be relied upon, Ferrari will return to Le Mans in…

While the other members of the Motor Sport team (Easy)jet to the far-flung corners of the globe, basking in the glamour of Formula 1 at close quarters, there are a…

No two weeks are ever the same at Motor Sport. To pluck a single highlight from my experiences of 2013 is a tough call when I reflect upon great trackside…

Choosing a single experience from another busy season is tough. But it has to be done and I have plucked one from way back in March. The Sebring 12 Hours…