Great Read Archive Under the skin of Jim Clark's Lotus 29 When Colin Chapman was invited to the 1962 Indianapolis 500 by Dan Gurney, the Lotus founder surveyed the front-engined 'dinosaurs' on show there and famously remarked, "All you've got to… March 2003 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive Desmodromic valvegear Mechanical valve closure has many benefits – and it helped long-time proponent Ducati win the MotoGP championship By Keith Howard In most internal combustion engines the valves are opened by… December 2007 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive Big bang theory Porsche caught the sports car elite off-guard with its rule-stretching 917, but Ferrari soon responded with a blunt instruments of its own. Former pilots Mario Andretti and Dan Gurney relate… June 2007 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive X-ray spec -- Ferrari 640 Three wins may not sound earth-shaking. But, as its designer explains to Keith Howard, Maranello's '89 car moved the goalposts Designed by Briton John Barnard following his departure from McLaren… June 2005 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive Auto Union D-Type As Nuvolari’s mount heads for Christies’ saleroom and a probable record price, we investigate the science behind this legendary pinnacle of pre-war racing car engineering In grand prix racing’s most… March 2007 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive X-ray spec -- Lola Mk4 It beat Ferrari in its debut year, so why did this project die? Keith Howard speaks to its instigator John Surtees completed his unique double of world championships on both… April 2005 Issue By Keith Howard
Great Read Archive X-ray spec: Under the skin of the Brabham BT34 Perhaps I just don't eat enough seafood, but I've never quite been able to picture how the Brabham BT34 earned the soubriquet 'lobster claw' — although its unusual disposition of twin… October 2003 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive Stack data-loger Technofile Racing drivers are employed to drive, not communicate. Thus a race engineer's lot was not always a happy one - until, that is, stack developed a device that could… June 2001 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive McLaren M7A It was sink or swim when a 21-year-old was given sole charge of a new F1 project: Keith Howard talks to the young man who wrote his own rules Robin… March 2004 Issue By Keith Howard
Archive Ground effect Colin Chapman made the biggest performance gain in modern Motorsport when he turned his attention to harnessing underbody aerodynamics. Keith Howard charts the process of using suction to blow away… October 2000 Issue By Keith Howard
Great Read Archive X-ray spec: under the skin of the March 701 By his own admission Robin Herd "vacillated and wavered" over which path to follow after leaving Cosworth in 1969. He could either take Bernie Ecclestone's shilling and design a car… October 2004 Issue By Keith Howard
Great Read Archive X-ray spec: Under the skin of Alan Jones' title-winning Williams FW07 Hegemony in Formula 1 — if you're clever enough to achieve it in the first place — rarely lasts for long. Like breakaway riders in a cycle race, most teams… November 2004 Issue By Keith Howard