Mario Andretti was less lucky in the Daytona 24 Hours than he was at Sebring where he won three times in 1967, ‘70 and ’72. Andretti started eight long-distance races…
This month the team sat down with Richard Attwood, winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1970. Regular listeners will know how entertaining Richard can be after Ed's evening…
Even in the 1970s, the Targa Florio was an anachronism. Held around the twisting roads of Sicily, it was a major part of the sports car championship for many years.…
Brian Redman won the Daytona 24 Hours three times. He co-drove a John Wyer Gulf Porsche 917 in 1970 to win with Pedro Rodríguez and Leo Kinnunen, won for a…
I enjoy all sports bar horse racing; I will never forgive it for regularly interrupting what little televised motor sport there was during my formative 1970s; the parade ring, the…
Season review books are often a hit-and-miss affair. Try to take on too much and you risk diluting the subject matter; if you concentrate on specifics you run the risk…
In Motor Sport’s January issue Michael Green writes from California in the Letters column about Dan Gurney’s unhappy episode testing one of Tony Parravano’s Ferraris at Willow Springs in the…
Footage. Not the billion specks of memory imprinted on sanitised microscopic chips. Rather the reels of it stacked in dusty storerooms: analogue stuff that you can touch – if not…
Between November 29 and January 3, we’ll be reviewing the 2012 motor sport season month by month. Along with these features, Ed Foster will be assessing each Formula 1 team’s…
Just one? That’s a tough call. But to narrow it down, I’d have to go for the closing stages of the Fuji 6 Hours in October. The new FIA World…
Between November 29 and January 3, we’ll be reviewing the 2012 motor sport season month by month. Along with these features, Ed Foster will be assessing each Formula 1 team’s…
The Grand-Am has made a wise choice in selecting Roger Bailey to be the new chief appellate officer of the American sports car series. Bailey replaces highly respected IMSA co-founder…
It’s a tough one but, after much agonising, my moment of the year has to be the Blancpain Endurance Series at magnificent Spa-Francorchamps. A thrilling encounter gave Audi their first…
Between November 29 and January 3, we’ll be reviewing the 2012 motor sport season month by month. Along with these features, Ed Foster will be assessing each Formula 1 team’s…
We reported a couple of months ago on the likelihood of Lola uniting with Multimatic in Canada and Carl Haas Auto in Chicago to revive the Lola brand. The deal…
It was a pleasure to watch Dario Franchitti and Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon drive superb races to finish one-two at this year’s Indianapolis 500 with Dario scoring his third win…
