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Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb…

Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb…
Despite laughable budgets and two serious shunts, John Watson finally got the F1 chance he deserved. Paul Fearnley retraces the…
15 minutes of fame Safir: 1975 British GP F3 race Eleven different chassis competed in British F3 in 1975, but one…
The Safari was the world's most photogenic event; Reinhard Klein is rallying's greatest photgrapher. This is a selection of stunning images…
Three decades after being sold as just another lot in a liquidation sale, this incredible GT racer has been unearthed. Paul Fearnley tells…
The Brighton Run for veteran cars, on November 2, was as usual tremendously successful, as one of the world's most important…
I knew Derek Buckler quite well. A rather serious chap, and why not, when you are selling kit-car parts and complete…
The present owner of the low-chassis S-type 4.5-litre Invicta which the late Bugatti exponent Lindsay Eccles owned until 1947, and…
After a long wait I have the true story about when John Duff, driving one of the pre-war 22.5-litre chain-drive…
Nigel Orlebar, who died aged 87 in September, joined the VSCC in 1936. His mother had competed in pre-WWI hillclimbs in…
Journalists are told not to reveal their news sources, which in politics has led to tragic results. I wonder who in…
My recent item about a Bamford & Martin Aston Martin brought encouraging news of these cars. Andy Bell of Ecurie Bertelli…
Ronnie Peterson: Formula One Super Swede By Johnny Tipler ISBN 1 902351 07 X Published by Coterie Press Ltd, £34.95 If…
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…
Mick Schumacher’s presenting of one of his father’s crash helmets in touching tribute to Lewis Hamilton at the Nürburgring on Sunday was also a reminder that eras come and go,…
The fact that Romain Grosjean survived his opening-lap crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix is “truly a miracle”, according to his Haas team-mate Kevin Magnussen. Grosjean had been trying to…
There is no doubt about it that, for good or ill, 2021 will be year in which electrification stopped being a subject more talked about than acted upon and became…