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John Watson on the McLaren MP4
In retrospect John Watson and Andrea de Cesaris deserve a lot of credit for climbing into the unproven MP4 and…
In retrospect John Watson and Andrea de Cesaris deserve a lot of credit for climbing into the unproven MP4 and…
McLaren will have to be at its best all season if it's once more to fend off Ferrari's threat. Grand…
Half the height of Everest, Pike's Peak is ten minutes of motorised uphill madness. John Davenport looks at the craziest…
It was the beginning of 1988 and I'd done a total of about six F3000 races and a handful of…
Ferrari's Sharknose 156 may be extinct but this faithful replica gives a clear picture of Enzo's first mid-engine racer. Matthew…
If the future for front-engined cars in Grand Prix racing was bleak at the beginning of the 1960s, then the…
Matra's plan was to win both Formula One titles plus Le Mans in just ten years. In the event, it…
From modest origins as a cheap self-build class, 500cc racing became the route to the top. Bill Boddy recalls the…
No driver has truly conquered Formula One, sports cars and rallying, but one extraordinary manager made it look easy. John…
Group Five race, Mainz-Finthen Airfield, 1978 Of course there have been a lot of memorable races over the years, especially…
In Autocar recently Steve Cropley, whose page I always read first, in establishing which was the first car to win…
In pre-WW1 days works Rolls-Royces performed well in some important competitions - in the 1914 Alpine Trials , winning a…
One may be asked sooner or later, if one can recall a highlight in one's life. I suppose I would…
Trevor Picken, Author of the award-winning book on Hampton cars, who was awarded the SAHC Cugnot Award at Hershey last…
The Verzons Time flies, and on new years day it was off to 'The Verzons' near Ledbury for another of…
Ronald Barker, my friend of very long standing, has been recalling the Trojan. I had two of these decidedly unconventional…
It must, I imagine, occur to most of us at some time that the Otto cycle (no, not a bicycle,…
The Bert Hadley Memorial Championship will be contested this year at the following venues: Gunston Down (April 17), Olivers Mount…
The answer to the query as to the type of Sunbeam given to Sir Henry Segrave after his victory in…
The amusing comedy about AGA stoves broadcast last December on BBC TV has caused fresh enthusiasm for these famous cookers.…
The historic venue of Monza will remain the host of the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix after a new deal was announced ahead of this year’s race. Monza will remain…
Practice starts this weekend for this year’s 94th Indianapolis 500. Qualifying takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 22-23, with the race on May 30. But most of…
Writing a column is an essentially simple business. Not easy perhaps, but simple all the same. There are only two rules I have found in the least useful over time:…
Seven years before the ground effect-harnessing Lotus 78 and all-conquering Brabham ‘fan car’, Jim Hall introduced a racing innovation which - almost quite literally - blew away the opposition. It…