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McLaren 570GT
Sporting gem gets extra sophistication It will be more than usually interesting to see how the market reacts to this…
August 2016
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Volkswagen Golf GTI ClubSport S
Extreme diet includes the removal of two seats The Ford on A previous page is not the only car this…
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Letters, August 2016
Formula 1 out of touch Whenever a tragedy such as the Orlando, Florida shooting takes place, it provides the opportunity…
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50 years on – Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix
He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won credibility as a director and his…
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A top-class actor...
...but James Garner could also have cut it as a racer Steve McQueen and Paul Newman tend to be talked…
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Best racing films
Rush (2013) See past the fact that the plot is mostly bunkum, and some of the CGI is a bit…
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Worst racing films
Time for Sylvester Stallone to avert his gaze... Red Line 7000 (1965) This crash-fest-cum-soap opera is conspicuously absent from many…
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Patrick Tambay: 'You could've been world champion'
The figure in the shadows looked familiar, but it was only as opening doors cast light upon him that the…
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Hall of Fame 2016
New venue, new concept, live action for the first time… There was much that was fresh, but in essence the…
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Rallying – Sébastien Loeb
Rallying has always been the bad boy of motor sport: less glamorous than Formula 1, more brash than touring cars…
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Sports cars – Derek Bell
Emotions were running high. Even Derek Bell, genuine ‘national treasure’ and a man well used to being lauded for his…
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Running up that hill
Porsche 962 & Hailwood Honda lead maiden Hall of Fame demos The one thing you can’t plan? The weather. A…
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Motorcycles – Valentino Rossi
The greatest motorcycle racer of all time? One of the greatest sportsmen of all time? When it comes to Valentino…
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US racing – Dan Gurney
As a near-winner himself of the Indy 500 (“When my oil pump broke it was a terrible shock, and frankly…
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Sean Edwards Foundation: the goals
Late in 2013 Sean Edwards was leading the Porsche Supercup by 18 points and, with one double-header remaining, appeared on…
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Derek Warwick on Sid Watkins
“He would look after everyone in the paddock, whether they’d been up to some mischief or else simply had a…
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Formula 1 – Sid Watkins
The fruitful engineering talents of Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth, the irrepressible spirit of Gilles Villeneuve or the pioneering medical…
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Lunch with... Frank Dernie
If you spend 35 years in Formula 1, successively (and often simultaneously) as aerodynamicist, computer programmer, R&D man, engineer, technical…
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In the spotlight – Adam Christodoulou
He’s won four 24-hour races, two of them on the Nordschleife. Simon Arron met the recent AMG Mercedes recruit His…
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Reliving the dream
You don’t have to be signed by Ferrari to drive a Grand Prix car. Historic racing is booming, and for…
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