The combination of Triple Eight Engineering and Jason Plato, with more than 160 wins and 12 titles between them – the most successful team and driver in the championship’s history…

News that Land Rover is considering building the new Defender in India has already been greeted with some fairly predictable howls of outrage from those thinking that a Defender not…

What a pleasure it was to watch Mike Shank’s team run a faultless race to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona. It was the first major win for Shank’s burgeoning…

Twenty-four years into my journalistic career and finally a story lands in my lap. When my new neighbour expressed an interest in motor sport our conversation soon turned to her…

Never exactly one to kowtow to convention, Patrick Head. But then great race engineers never are. It’s written in their DNA to kick against established thinking as they search for…

What is now known as the Rolex 24 Hours was founded 50 years ago as a three-hour race called the Daytona Continental. The race was run over three hours in…

A moment of idleness turned into an interesting experiment last week. Having succumbed some time ago to the somewhat dubious charms of Twitter I posted a tweet asking if a…

The 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, which closed the season, didn’t exactly go the way Rubens Barrichello might have wished. Having qualified his Williams-Cosworth 12th – a position which considerably flattered…

Unless you’re at the sharp end of racing – frantically fettling in readiness of the new season – this can be a grey time of year. Which is why we…

Welcome everyone to our first podcast of 2012. Pat Symonds is the only podcast guest we've had more than once, and when you listen you'll realise why. He's a straight-talking…

Carlos Reutemann was a racing driver from Central Casting: blue eyes, chiseled jaw, dimples, brooding Brando brows, luxuriant hair, tanned. To think, he shared F1 grids with Peter Revson, François…

Just when you thought you’d mentally sorted your plug-in hybrids from your range extenders, your NiMh batteries from your lithium-ions, steel yourself for another twist in the hybrid tale, heading…