There are several elements that gild the story of any competition car, which highlight its innate abilities, pedigree and rarity. One factor is its success – did it win any significant races? Another,…

A film about a film? That’s the premise of a new documentary, but many tales about Steve McQueen and Le Mans had still to be told. The executive producer, formerly of…

Right team, wrong venue Martin Brundle’s memories of racing with Stefan Bellof in their normally aspirated Tyrrells at Zandvoort in 1984 are incorrect – he must be thinking about a…

Space is limited on these pages, which is why mid-life updates of even quite important cars sometimes fail to make the grade. But when that update is as extensive as…

It is well known that next year Ford will launch a new Focus RS, the first with four-wheel drive. If the last is any guide at all, we can expect to be…

The Volkswagen Golf R is one of those machines beloved by lazy motoring journalists for the access it provides to a full range of automotive clichés. It’s the car both…

VW’s future options It will be many years before the full ramifications of the Volkswagen emissions scandal are known and, even as I write, more than a month after the…

Raging bull receives sufficient extra pep to challenge the prancing horse  | by Andrew Frankel There must have been at least a few times over the course of 53 years when…

GT40s for Goodwood New races dedicated to Ford GT40s, under 2-litre touring cars and 100-year-old Edwardian specials will be among the highlights at the 74th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood next…

Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton Hallelujah! Here’s a rare English biography of an unfathomably overlooked motor racing great, with committed input from the man himself.  And not before time. The cult…

The battle to stay on terms with Porsche If there’s one country on the FIA World Endurance Championship calendar that most people look forward to visiting, it’s Japan. For me and…

Mission impossible? It was indeed After two and a half years as IndyCar’s president of competition and operations, Derrick Walker has resigned and hopes to return to the ranks of team…