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A classy performer
Bill Boddy remembers the Hon Brian Lewis – a very successful, aristocratic amateur racer who drove with professional style It…
Bill Boddy remembers the Hon Brian Lewis – a very successful, aristocratic amateur racer who drove with professional style It…
Gaining membership to the BRDC was one of the biggest moments of my career as a young driver. I was…
Worn with pride — preferably on your bumper or over your heart— the BRDC shield, with Union Flag and generic…
The BRDC's post-war growth was mirrored by its rapid redevelopment of an old bomber base, in Northamptonshire. Gordon Cruickshank charts…
The BRDC strives to safeguard not only British motorsport's future, but also its past. So at Silverstone the Club stores…
Today, racing drivers chase after points in title battles. When the BRDC was young it flirted with a championship series,…
The last few years have been tumultuous ones for the BRDC, but the groundwork has been laid for a long,…
Sports car racing assumed a distinctly transatlantic flavour in the 1960s when hybrids of European chassis and American V8s began…
To many rally fans, Peugeot's 205 T16 and Lancia's Delta S4 stand as the greatest rally cars of all time.…
Fifteen minutes of fame Berta LR: Temporada Series, Buenos Aires – January 10-18,1970 A DFV-engined sportscar built in Argentina sounds…
Guy Moll ...Enzo Ferrari thought so. Mark Hughes tells the story of a short but spectacular career Pescara 1934. The…
He didn’t want to, but he had no choice. Matra, or rather its new parent company, Chrysler, was demanding that…
By Michael Cotton and Gustav Büsing ISBN 3928540408 Published by Gruppe C Motorsport-Verlag GmbH, £59.99 Now that the dust has…
By David Sutton ISBN 0954286014 Published by Live Wire Books, £18.00 It's sobering to see how rapidly a successful firm…
Ford au Mans By François Hurel ISBN 2914920210 Published by Editions du Palmier, 52.00 Euros We liked Hurel's book on…
By Cesare de Agostini ISBN 8879112902 Published by Giorgio Nada Editore, £29.99 Another Nuvolari volume. Do we need one? Probably…
By Maurizio Tabuchi ISBN 8879112600 Published by Giorgio Nada Editore, £49.99 Guilio Alfieri, who directed Maserati for so long, says…
By Peter Higham ISBN 893618 20 X Published by David Bull Publishing, £35.99 So, who did win the 1966 Avusrennen?…
Bill Boddy During the war I reckoned the Bamford & Martin side-valve Aston Martins of the early 1920s, built in…
Two articles in Aeroplane, one about how racing racing driver Richard Shuttleworth found the ancient aeroplanes now in the Old…
This competition is now closed The new Jim Clark Motorsport Museum officially opens at the end of this month. To mark the occasion, the Jim Clark Trust is giving supporters…
“Can we talk later on this afternoon?” he says. “I’m a bit tied up right now, working on a friend’s Morris 1000 Traveller. Is that OK?” Surely a Morris Traveller…
Interlagos, at sub 1min 08sec the second shortest qualifying lap on the calendar behind Austria, normally produces one of the tightest grids in terms of time spread. Which is why…
Team Lotus reserve driver Karun Chandhok is our latest podcast guest. He talks to Nigel Roebuck, Rob Widdows and Damien Smith about the role of the reserve driver, his contribution…