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Flat chat with Sammy Davis
Le Mans winner, editor and raconteur, 93-year-old Sammy Davis had plenty of tales to tell. Brendan Lynch was his audience…
Le Mans winner, editor and raconteur, 93-year-old Sammy Davis had plenty of tales to tell. Brendan Lynch was his audience…
Roy Pike beat the best Formula Three had to offer in his new Titan. But then the plug was pulled…
When Formula Two was fading, Bernie Ecclestone came up with an alternative. -- A new home for a castrated DFV.…
Spectacular Dave MacDonald was the racing photographer's friend -- literally in the case of Dave Friedman. They first met in…
Twelve-year-old Leigh Dorrington got a rude awakening when his father took him to his first Imdy 500 in 1964. He…
Despite scoring Formula One's only win for four-wheel drive, this British company's system appeared better suited to Indianapolis. By Keith…
Back in 1962 Motoring News ran a story about a young up-and-coming driver. The item concluded that we could expect…
The one that got away: JJ Lehto, 1999 Le Mans 24 hours He'd won before. He was happy with team,…
The Anglo-French Boulogne confrontations of the 1920s provided lots of variety, plenty of excitement and a tantalising glimpse of the…
Nissan spent a fortune on its four-wheel-drive Group A rally machine. Neat, compact and bristling with gizmos... it flopped. John…
It was a remarkable opening lap of a remarkable circuit. Rhodesia's Gary Hocking had been drawn at six, his MV…
Crystal Palace claims first car raceA claim that Britain's very first motor race was held in Glasgow in September 1901,…
In 1961, I heard that W J Brunell wanted to sell his remarkable collection of negatives of motoring history, a…
The VSCC John Harris Trial in March was a stiff test, as shown by only six First Class awards being…
On the cars in books theme, Peter Blair-Richley has drawn my attention to Norman Lewis's autobiography I Came, I Saw…
The Mini is with us again, recalling the sensation when, as the work of that determined and amusing Alec Issigonis,…
Even as France was recovering from the devastating war of 1914-18, a number of small sportscars were being produced in…
Kieft Racing Cars — The Brigend Story By Peter Tutthill No ISBN Published by Peter Tutthill (Tel: 01208 812358)At Goodwood…
German Grand Prix 1967Jim Clark, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart and Dan Gurney blast away form the front row as the…
MotoGP now has fewer rider controls, so once again we’re seeing riders getting all acrobatic. That’s why Marc Márquez was a sight to behold at COTA That was quite a…
If ever concrete proof was needed that Netflix’s Drive to Survive series has vastly impacted F1’s popularity in the USA, you only needed note the 120,000-plus spectators who flocked into…
When John Barnard arrived at Ferrari from McLaren for the 1987 Formula 1 season, he found a team in desperate need of fixing. By season's end the Scuderia had achieved…
A new documentary's been doing the rounds at film festivals over the last couple of months – the story of Steve McQueen's obsession with motor racing and the making of…