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"Jean-Louis was a pretty good test driver and worked well with us. He was always strongly opinionated and I am sure…
"Jean-Louis was a pretty good test driver and worked well with us. He was always strongly opinionated and I am sure…
Perhaps I just don't eat enough seafood, but I've never quite been able to picture how the Brabham BT34 earned…
Want to race an historic single-seater but can't afford a Lotus 72? A Classic Formula Ford might be the answer.…
The HSCC's Historic Formula Ford Championship positions itself at the more 'expensive' end of the market. It caters for pre-1971…
Historic endurance rallying is one of the real growth areas of motor sport. The experience of driving classic cars on…
Fifteen minutes of fame Puma Mk1: Crystal Palace F3 — June 18, 1971 Designed for one formula but run in another, this is…
With its young millionaire backer, Scirocco looked set to whip up a storm in F1. Gordon Cruickshank explains why it didn't Next…
Porsche's 908/3 was Lotus-like in philosophy, but its crash diet didn't stop it from munching some of racing's roughest roads. Paul…
"I started my career with Porsche purely as a rally man. I was signed by Huschke von Hanstein, but not long after…
Forza Amon! A Biography of Chris Amon By Eoin Young ISBN 1 8442 5 016 4 Published by Haynes, £17.99…
When I was posted to Harrogate during WII, I was able to pop over to Bradford to interview Felix Scriven…
When we look back on 2003, one of the outstanding results will be the Bentley domination of Le Mans, the Speed…
This month, Julian Bennett, grandson of the famous Fred Bennett, a past president of the VCC, will endeavour to re-enact…
Having recorded how the licensing authorities told me that the famous racing Aston-Martin 'Bunny' had been scrapped, I have been checking…
Not Leonce Girardot who, in the heroic age of motor racing, earned this title by the number of times he finished…
A reader has asked me to identify two photographs: one is a Coupe de l'Auto Calthorpe with its imposing radiator.…
RB Lakin points out that it was he, then Sub Lt Lakin, RN, who owned the IFS Bugatti which Dick…
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1999 issue of Motor…
It’s easy to forget, as glum-faced racing drivers rehash their lines through interview after interview on our TV screens, but most racing drivers are just like us: proper motor sport…
By Sam Smith JOTA Sport’s new star Mitch Evans is looking forward to making his Le Mans 24 Hours debut next weekend in the highly competitive LMP2 class. The Kent-based…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring some dramatic Portuguese and Canadian Grands Prix, and a birthday for a bona fide Le Mans legend September 19…