Dad – a Vintage Sports-Car Club regular in our everyday chain-drive Frazer Nash – was my first motorsporting hero. My second was a square-jawed multiple Formula 1 world champion called…
There are no white lines or barriers, crowds watch from behind roadside bushes and the mountains behind provide a majestic backdrop. You can almost feel the warm sun on your…
Fourteen years in the making, the two-volume Maserati: The Family Silver by Nigel Trow is the ultimate company history by one of the world’s finest automotive writers. Through his friendship…
The Irish International Grand Prix Bob Montgomery Considering there were only three of these Irish grand prix meetings this seems a big book. But, says Bob Montgomery, these races were…
Who doesn’t dream of a forgotten Type 57 Bugatti in a barn (I actually found one once!) or a mislaid Ferrari Testa Rossa? This is the visual record of a…
Maybe it seems odd to be investigating the previous Gordon Murray super-light sportster during the razzmatazz around his new superlight sportster. But in fact author Clive Neville tells us he…
This year’s RAC Motoring Book of the Year Awards gave the judges – which included Motor Sport’s own Gordon Cruickshank – a harder task than ever, and meant hearty debate.…
Anyone who watched vintage racing from the 1960s to the 1990s will know Tony Merrick, racer of ERAs, a Ferrari 246 Dino and dozens more. This memoir covers his career…
How would we feel if Liberty Media and the FIA announced that the 2021 season would be run for 1500cc tiddlers, with no hybrid or electrical backup systems? Short-changed, annoyed,…
A. Maserati: The Family Silver by Nigel Trow, £209 | BUY NOW B. Bentley: Last of the Silent Sports Cars 1938-39 by Ian Strang & John Boothman, £100 C. IMSA…
The first thing you need to know is that this book is about the Ferrari 312P, not the Ferrari 312P. They have different engines. It’s no wonder that the wider…
Kimi on the F1 world from The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen, published by Simon & Schuster Kimi Räikkönen is famous for his reticence. Silence wasn’t invented by the Finns, yet all…
It’s been long awaited, this autobiography of the man Stirling Moss would have in his ideal team, yet Tony Brooks has extraordinary recall not only of his own races but…
