I first drove the McLaren M23 at the end of 1974, and over the next few years I got to…

In the 1930s, Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz fought epic battles on the mountain climbs of Europe now the fierce rivalry…

Brian Lister tells Gordon Cruickshank about his giant-killing cars, the company and Archie Scott Brown, who would have been 70…

The sharknose Ferrari was every schoolboy's epitome of the early 1960s Formula 1 car, and it still has a place in…

The famous rear wing was the Chaparral's most obvious aerodynamic appendage, and one which Formula One would embrace wholeheartedly the…

The Chaparral 2F is enshrined in motor racing lore as the car that allowed the underrated Mike Spence to demonstrate…

Their daughter was the famous one, but Tommy and Elsie Wisdom made their own mark in 25 years of racing…

Chaplain to both Queen and BRDC, Canon Lionel Webber is the force behind the remarkable Retro 97, taking place in…

As both racing car and money-making machine, the BMW M1 was an abject failure but, on the road,it proved sublime.…

Cars with more power than grip and top F1 drivers made the M1 Procar series very special. For many, it…

John Miles beckons me over with a crook of a gloved index finger. He points to a smear of blue…

He's a veteran of over 140 Grand Prix, but none compares with that first taste of success in a stock…

Twenty years ago the Golf GTi defined a new breed of fast, practical fun car. Now, says Andrew Frankel, VW…

The first time I saw a 3 1/2-litre Bentley, the sensation of 1933, was when I was associated with an…

The VSCC is getting on with a very full fixture-list, and it has occurred to me that whereas driver ability…

Pre-war motor racing will forever be associated with the scent of Castrol-R engine oil, mingled with the fuel fumes of…

The Brooklands Museum is open for business conferences, promotion parties and even weddings, and now the Bugatti OC is offering…

By a coincidence, having recalled my first acquaintance with a Derby-built Bentley, I received a letter from a long-standing reader…

On July 18 50 years ago a clergyman stood in London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and dedicated…