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Having made a fortune out of alloy wheels, Gunter Schmid bought a Formula One team. But he knew everyone’s jobs…
Having made a fortune out of alloy wheels, Gunter Schmid bought a Formula One team. But he knew everyone’s jobs…
Despite having no technical education Gunther Schmid began tinkering with cars in his youth. In 1966 he began racing in…
Louis Klemantaski, probably the best-known racing photographer of them all, was born of Anglo-Russian stock in 1912. He covered racing…
It’s now four decades since Britain’s archetypal sportscar went into production. Matthew Franey samples life in the Lotus Seven fast…
The worst car I ever drove Perry McCarthy Andrea Moda-Judd S192 In the first of a new series, Shaun…
Only one British circuit in current use can also boast a pre-war history. Donington memories may centre round Mercedes and…
If you cannot imagine Formula One without Murray Walker, he knows how you feel. He tells Matthew Franey why, aged…
Murray Walker spent the greater part of his entire career with just one ambition. "I wanted to be in the…
It was the supercar you could take to Sainsbury’s – but, relates Andrew Frankel, it would scramble your eggs on…
Le Mans 1959 It was the greenhorn’s dream to drive at Le Mans, a long-term goal: yet it happened withing…
George Robery Neville Minchin MA was well-known in the motor industry as a supplier of batteries to Rolls-Royce from his…
Those Goodwood dates for 1998 – make a note now: Festival of Speed – June 12/14; reopening of the Goodwood…
The Jaguars of the 1950s are now classic cars, and of them the XK120 represents the start of significant developments.…
WB received his MBE on Novemver 17 at Powys County Hall, the presentation made on behalf of HM The Queen…
D A Aldington The sad news that Don Aldington has died closes one more link with the old days of…
Just think how many happy people must have gone to Brooklands, on foot, bicycle, motorcycle, car or aeroplane, between 1907…
Two recent VSCC events have been the recognisably tough Lakeland Trial on November 5 and the Eastern Rally on November…
A stop-start career has meant Toby Sowery has had to watch from the sidelines while his contemporaries progressed – but that all might be about to change
Jaguar leapt into the Group C bear pit in the 1980s, looking to revive its 1950s Le Mans 24 Hours successes. Andrew Frankel explores how it did just that, vanquishing Porsche with its now-legendary Silk Cut XJRs
In the latest issue, we celebrate Silverstone's 70th anniversary as Lewis Hamilton, Murray Walker, Nigel Mansell and Jackie Stewart reveal their favourite moments from the home of British racing. Pick…
Kimi! The 39-year-old jumped from his Ferrari like a teenager after quite the most beautifully judged victory, his first in more than five years, the first of his five-year second…