A mountain circuit around two extinct volcanoes with 50 corners and just one brief straight – surely not a grand prix venue? Yet that was Charade, scenic but challenging, clinging…

First things first – pronunciation. Although in Yorkshire it’s said with a ‘huff’, our Eric preferred ‘Ferni-ho’. Sounds a little ho-falutin’ but then Eric Fernihough wasn’t the usual grimy Brooklands…

Behind every driver is a team, from design engineers to sweeper-uppers, but we don’t often get to hear from, or even about, them. Here’s a chance for the people who…

Not a history of OSCA per se, this hangs on the stills of Walter Breveglieri, a fashion and society photographer who also loved motor racing and became friends with the…

Sadler cars I knew a little about – attractive and muscular sports racers from Canada. Sadler the man was a stranger to me so this biography was a welcome arrival.…

When Jim Hall came to Goodwood he was surprised how much people knew about him and his racing cars. In one way his surprise is understandable: numerically, Chaparral victories don’t…

Derek Warwick should write another book, about his Uncle Stan. A rambunctious figure, ever ready with his fists, he colours the Formula 1 driver’s early chapters with numerous car crashes…

Reading “Unfeasible speed – Disgruntled Nazis – Beautiful heiresses” on the flyleaf here gave me a brief worry that this would be a Boy’s Own pastiche. In fact there was…

There’s a cheerful title for you – the same tone that pervades this fun softback. Bob Evans touched the hem of Formula 1, gaining a brief Lotus drive in 1977…

Brooklands: birthplace of motor sport – and of Motor Sport. For years the Surrey autodrome, first race circuit in the world, was the centre of motor racing in Britain, and…

One hundred years ago a man called Oscar Seyd decided that the world of motor racing needed a dedicated publication on the subject. Back then motor racing in Britain was…

It's tough being a new kid on the block, especially if you come from somewhere far away. That's what Lotus found when Colin Chapman decided to tackle Indianapolis. He was…