Whisper it. We are just passing the centenary of the so familiar Brooklands silencer, largely a product of post-WW1 middle-class incomers complaining about the noise from Weybridge’s Brooklands Motor Course.…

Not too far into the Austrian GP at the hilly Red Bull Ring, it was noticeable how many rolls of tread-compound ‘rubber’ had already been ground off the incredibly fast…

Beyond school leaving age many old snowies such as myself assure our young friends that the answer to what seems to accelerate quicker than a 1000hp half-tonner can be the…

In this year of significant anniversaries – 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship (NB – NOT as the marketeers would like us to believe “of Formula 1”, which…

Red revolution August 2021 Twenty-one years ago, Ferrari returned to the pinnacle of Formula 1 achievement, adding the Drivers’ World Championship for Michael Schumacher to its second consecutive Formula 1 Constructors’…

It’s an unfortunate fact that rather more Formula 1 drivers are better remembered for misfortunes than achievement. For me 30 years ago the Japanese hopeful Taki Inoue fitted this bill.…

Stirling Moss’s first experience of Italy’s tremendous classic road race came in 1951, upon his debut as a works Jaguar driver. He was only 21. He still had a head…

Our late little bearded mate Jenks obviously features prominently in this issue’s Mille Miglia pages, but I’m also reminded of his regular Continental Notes column, which in many ways fuelled…

There was perhaps more than a hint of wannabe reality television ‘star’ about Lewis Hamilton’s tailored style in his first on-site public appearance with Ferrari on January 20. Immaculately suited,…

There are many obstacles to preserving truly historic racing cars. The somewhat depressing list of these surely begins with a simple question: define what really constitutes ‘a car’, especially in…

There are many things about the motoring world that I will never, ever, understand. My distaste for most such matters stems from simple disinterest. If it’s a road or production…

As we motor into another winter three variably thought-provoking anniversaries beckon. Seventy-five years ago, on December 15, 1949, a group of national and specialist motoring journalists gathered in rural Lincolnshire…