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Lunch with John Wickham
He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car…

He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car…
The watch business has truly joined the online configurator game that has proven so popular in the car industry. One…
There has, it seems, always been a small gap in Stirling Moss’s history. The result for the 1953 GP at…
The road to Amelia Island is a calm, gentle drive, tracing the Florida coastline and rolling past pretty wooden beachside…
Think of Miki Biasion and images of Martini-liveried Lancia Delta Integrales throwing up the dust or scrabbling for grip on…
If it were possible to bottle whatever Cesare Fiorio is made of, you’d be able to name your price. He…
There was a moment, a pause, and then the realisation – yes, that had just happened. Lancia team principal Cesare…
Caught between eras, Formula 1’s struggle to downsize has only been intensified by coronavirus. No team better encapsulates this struggle…
The rain came in biblical proportions. On March 21, 1959, Sebring was soaked, and it featured the US race debut…
Tom Walkinshaw was always one to leave a strong first impression. Love him or loathe him – and there were…
Rudi Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the stupendous W196 Mercedes, described the Lancia D50 Formula 1 machine as “the only car…
Once it was Britain’s Motor City. Coventry, in the bustling industrial Midlands, was the hub where from 1896 onward such…
Lockdown might have had a seriously detrimental effect on businesses everywhere – but not, it seems, if you happen to…
HRDC race director Julius Thurgood really started a trend when he had the idea of establishing his accessible Academy series…
A few months ago in these pages we expressed a thought that the old car market, while generally on a…
With the whole world upside-down and few of us knowing what the next few days will bring – never mind…
It’s hard to think of a more successful or influential junior single- seater than Tatuus’ first one-make Formula Renault racer.…
The term ‘cobbled together’ is an understatement in regards to the Austin-Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite. The 1950s sports car was the…
Porsche set the standard in the Group C era, but it faced rare stern opposition at Silverstone in 1983. Brian…
4 August, 1969 German Grand Prix Jacky Ickx stole the show at the Nürburgring in 1969, sealing pole in his…
Toprak Razgatlıoğlu is the most exciting motorcycle racer on Earth right now, so what’s his riding technique and will it work in MotoGP? The Turkish World Superbike genius talks stoppies, breakdancing, riding MotoGP bikes and why he needs engine-brake more than anything
How strange that the last two Formula 1 World Champions, both from Britain, should muddle through to their first title in the closing laps of a dramatic and occasionally chaotic…
F1 legends past and present have brought drama to the Mexican Grand Prix – we look back at the best on the 60th anniversary of its first championship F1 race
Main photo: Daytona International Speedway As MotoGP's superstars rode out on Saturday night to tweak their black boxes and twiddle with their high-speed rebound adjusters, the world's greatest motorcycle race…