Books

One of my treasured books as a young lad was The Boys’ Book of Motors (it’s still on the shelf behind me). As well as the various four-wheeled excitements I…

Back in a time when the ageing 328 and the flashy Testarossa were the best that Ferrari had to offer, and before the company suddenly remembered that you could still…

Forty years of Group C? It’s the anniversary that just keeps on giving. If the heavyweight triple-volume celebration of works Porsche 962s reviewed in this space last month, Ultimate Works…

First, a declaration. It was Andrew Marriott who got me started in the writing racket almost 60 years ago by recruiting me as a freelancer at Motoring News. We shared…

Everyone wants to drive the ’Ring – it’s implicit in the membership badge of the Petrolhead Club. We also all know that it’s almost impossible to learn all of it,…

Remember Drake Olson? Not sure we did. Briefly a rising star in IMSA, Olson made a single start in a works Rothmans Porsche 962, sharing No3 (chassis 002) with Vern…

They say history is another country, and MotoGP in the early 1970s was so different to its modern-day counterpart to be barely recognisable

Whether you want to toy around with the latest F1 cars or race as an F2 driver, F1 22 for PlayStation, Xbox and Windows has plenty to offer. With US…

Must remember not to use the adjective ‘definitive’ in this review, because that’s just what I thought Simon Moore’s previous books would turn out to be, only he keeps demonstrating…

Ultimate Works Porsche 962, a new book of unprecedented depth and detail on the legendary Le Mans car, is set to be released at Hexagon Classics

I’m glad I can open this review with the Darl’mat versions of the Peugeots which raced successfully at Le Mans and elsewhere in the 1930s, otherwise a book about a…

Scholarly. That’s the best word for this discussion on the future of automotive history. It’s hard to summarise how much long-time collector and archivist Miles Collier packs into this wide-ranging…

There’s a joke that runs “But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?” Lance Macklin’s story is similar: what else do you know about him except…

Here’s an honour: in his foreword Bernie Ecclestone says the BRP team “pointed the way for Formula 1”. Quite a compliment from the man who created the modern sport. He’s…

Why do we spend more time remembering the glorious failure of the V16 than we do the cars that finally brought grand prix victory to the optimistic BRM marque? Is…

Anybody with an interest in vintage chart music will know that this glossy, 258-page book about France’s ruthless march into motor racing from 1966-74 shares its title with Peter Gabriel’s…

So much has already been said about Max Verstappen including in the documentary Whatever It Takes, as well as several biographies, that the big question about André Hoogeboom’s Max: The…