Formula One is more comfortable expressing optimism about the future than nostalgia about the past It prefers looking ahead to…

In his Cambridge days, my father went with some friends to watch the Donington Grand Prix in 1938. All he…

John Surtees is nine parts steely determination, one part cast-iron cussedness. By his own admission, he walked away from a…

Dan Gurney was always going to excel at a challenging circuit like Bridgehampton. But his 1966 success there owed as…

Innovation and unbridled success don't always go hand in hand, but still it's strange to rediscover that jim hall's team…

Driving the works Mclaren Can-Am cars must have been a surreal and special away to earn a living. First there…

With an old car, negligible can-am form but plenty of nous,John Cannon was the only man equipped to cope with…

McKee (1966-69) Bob McKee was an Indy 500 mechanic in 1961 when he performed one of the first-ever swaps of…

Can-Am was in a McLaren rut it needed a new Challenger. Chapparal blew into town with its 'sucker' car but,…

You can look at Can-Am 1974-style in two ways. The embers of a once-great series given a chance to glow…

Consider the following. "I have to say that what I saw that day at Monza was unethical, unsporting and dangerous.…

Imagine Rubens Barrichello being black flagged from a race for blocking David Coullhard in his chase of Michael Schumacher. Now…

Chapman the designer; Chapman the race team manager; Chapman the business entrepreneur; we are used to these pictures of the…

Mark Blundell 1985 SPA F3000 He was just 21. He was running his own team. He had an old car.…

Search the worldwide web using 'active suspension' as keywords and you will quickly find claims that Williams invented the technology in 1992,…

Enthusiasts may remember stirling moss' speed record for M.G. But who can recount the Marques countless pre-war and early post-war…

He worked alongside Chapman at Lotus, so it's no surprise that his choice is so named. This home-built racer is…

The 1972 Belgian GP was at held nivelles. Two weeks earlier,just down the road, the antithesis of that bland track…

Although he was far too big for a modern Grand Prix Car, Colin Crabbe made his racing debut in a…

It is war! That was the devastatingly chilling declaration made by Neville Chamberlain in 1939 and now in 2001 by…