Think of Barney Oldfield and sepia-tinged images of a stogie-chomping superstar urging his car to the edge of control will…

Up for the Cup Normally one-make racing does little to raise my blood pressure. Having reported on two years of…

Sébastien Loeb Citroën's superstar successfully defended his World Rally Championship by finishing second in Japan . In doing so the…

Sir Stirling Moss has hailed Spaniard Fernando Alonso as a "worthy" successor to Michael Schumacher after he became the youngest…

Laurent Aïello, arguably the greatest driver of the Super Touring era, has announced his retirement from race driving -- at the…

Minardi will disappear from Formula One at the end of this season after 21 years mostly spent propping up the…

Italian FF2000, Monza, 1977 My first race was in Formula Super Ford at Monza.  I was 18 years old. For…

Michael Park An accident on Rally Great Britain resulted in the loss of one of the most well-liked figures in…

Sunshine, racing cars and very big hats... Marcus Simmons absorbs the unique atmosphere that can only spell one place Ever…

After who knows how many years, I went back to Brands Hatch in late September for the inaugural A1GP race,…

Film director, anti-nuclear activist, newspaper columnist, motivational coach and altogether too cool for any room, Sir John Whitmore proves that…

1995: Damon Hill wins the Australian GP for Williams.  Olivier Panis (Ligier) is second ahead of Footwork's Gianni Morbidelli.  There…

BMW to win world title? BMW stands on the brink of its drivers taking a clean sweep in the two…

Five years ago Fernando Alonso was just another F3000 hopeful. Enter Flavio Briatore... Fernando Alonso took the lead of the…

Memoirs of a Racing Man by Jo Ramírez.  ISBN184425 238 8, published by Haynes, £18.99 In the introduction to this book,…

Interserie info Sir, I was pleased to see some Interserie photographs from the vaults of Walter Hoffmann in the September…

The driver's job, 1969 During a recent discussion on grand prix drivers past and present, the inevitable Fangio, Moss, Clark,…

Gilles:  Epic talent  -- our correspondent this month was also our correspondent when Gilles first showed his talent. Sir, I thoroughly…

  From Swiss vs Austrian hillclimbing to unwieldy in-car cameras, James Garner and a three-wheeled F3 racer...  These wonderful hillclimb…

 He might team up with Frank Sytner, enjoys chatting with Steve Soper and sits next to Alain Menu on long-haul…