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…

Teams split on WEC future More powerful hybrid systems, and potentially more of them... The scope for green technology within the World Endurance Championship’s LMP1 class is set to be extended.…

Chance can be a fine thing When manufacturers go racing they learn from other manufacturers; that’s half the point of the exercise. Often this knowledge is gained fairly, other times…

At this stage of the season, with everything up at the Mercedes end of the grid funnelling down towards second consecutive championships, the real intrigue lay with the whole Red Bull…