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How can Audi and Porsche enter F1? Ask Mark
Hi Mark. What’s the deal with Audi and Porsche both joining F1? The two were stopped from co-existing in sports…

Hi Mark. What’s the deal with Audi and Porsche both joining F1? The two were stopped from co-existing in sports…
Right now, Toyota boasts three manual-transmission performance cars. Naming other carmakers who can claim the same is a depressingly short…
What do the Range Rover and Porsche 911 have in common? Only that they have both been so successful that,…
There’s something for lesser Audis to learn from this flagship saloon. How pleasing it is to see a truly rapid…
Horological historians will know that Abraham-Louis Breguet is best associated with the development of the tourbillon – and since he…
Hungarian Grand Prix July 29-31 If there’s one race that stands out from a highly crowded July – during which…
I’m glad I can open this review with the Darl’mat versions of the Peugeots which raced successfully at Le Mans…
Scholarly. That’s the best word for this discussion on the future of automotive history. It’s hard to summarise how much…
John Watson came to England from Northern Ireland to make his name in 1969. His natural talent was immediately recognised…
I’m going back to 1993, and it’s one that got away – my great rival Joachim Winkelhock beating me to…
Not quite the BBC, perhaps, but this was typical of the Brazilian broadcasting art in 1987. Apart from his attire…
I read with interest your recognition of the recent passing of Tony Brooks [Matters of Moment, July]. As an eight-year-old,…
As you might imagine, compiling a top-30 list of motor racing’s pivotal happenings was a headache of formidable proportions. Through…
It seemed only right to go back. I was here 11 years ago in the very first product created by…
McLaren was never not going to race the Artura and with the 720S looking after the GT3 category, GT4 is…
It nearly didn’t happen. Jost capito was a step away from retirement when he agreed to join Williams Racing as…
New Zealander Brendon Hartley won Le Mans for the third time this summer, an impressive feat in itself, but he…
Fate has a reputation for moving in mysterious ways, but can sometimes be unexpectedly productive. When watchmaker and motor sport…
Good grief. I haven’t sat in this since I climbed out at Brands Hatch in 1972, having just buried it…
Italian racing cars from the 1950s don’t come much more ‘quintessential’ than this spectacular Maserati A6GCS/53, one of the 48…
The last time I saw Carroll Shelby was at the Los Angeles Auto Show in the autumn. He was there to unveil the latest car to bear his name. When…
Ferrari's 296 GT3 will compete from 2023; the V6-turbocharged sports car replaces the 488 GT3
When I learned to drive I was told to learn to ‘read the road’. What no-one thought to mention, then or since, is the only slightly less important skill of…
“I guess when it’s going for you, it’s just going for you… you just have to enjoy it while it lasts and take what you can when you can.” Colin…