The decision to exempt pre-1960 cars from their annual MOT test sounds terrific. In theory. Roads Minister Mike Penning says that though these cars represent 0.6 per cent of traffic,…
Williams, rejoice, rejoice, won the Spanish Grand Prix. What a difference an engine makes. Or does it? Caterham, too, has the Renault engine and they are far from winning. In…
Based on what we saw in qualifying last weekend this year’s Indy 500 will witness a titanic battle between Roger Penske’s and Michael Andretti’s Chevrolet-powered multi-car teams. The Penske and…
As with its first win, so with its 114th: Pastor Maldonado’s surprise ending of Williams’ long drought elicited the same reaction as Clay Regazzoni’s surprise opening of the floodgates all…
Like many of his fans the world over, I was saddened to hear that Carroll Shelby passed away last week. I only met him once, at Goodwood 10 or more…
Jimmie Johnson came through to score Hendrick Motorsports’s 200th NASCAR Sprint Cup win last Saturday night at Darlington, South Carolina. Johnson’s victory in the Southern 500 brought an end to…
Carroll Shelby has passed away, aged 89. Shelby was one of motor racing’s greatest salesmen fathering the legendary Shelby Cobra and helping with the birth of Ford’s GT40 and the…
No one would have put money on five different winners, from five different teams, in the first five races of 2012. But that’s exactly what has happened after Pastor Maldonado…
Personally, I hate all new technology, without exception. Well, except anything that allows me to be lazier than I already am. So, yes, I will grudgingly admit that new technology…
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, having harried the victorious Lotus 72D of Emerson Fittipaldi in the closing stages of April 1972’s International Trophy at Silverstone, climbed wistfully from his BRM P160: had he…
The great John Le Carre (yes, I am biased, a huge fan of his novels) observed that a desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. He…
The telephone rang. “Andrew, the car’s handling like a piece of sh*t.” Spared the usual introductions, this could only my Porsche 911 GT3 driving chum who’d bought the car on…
