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Fifty years ago when a BRM P160 burst out of a giant cigarette packet at Paul Ricard to signify Marlboro’s first F1 sponsorship deal, smoking was synonymous with glamour –…

135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 6 Just as the Coventry Climax racing effort was fading in the mid-1960s, a new contender was waiting in…

The main Dakar event might seem gruelling enough, but some are bravely taking on the Saudi stages in vintage machinery – some over 50 years old

A scheming team boss, a bitter team ripped apart by rivalry and one conflagrated Vauxhall – Jason Plato recalls how he somehow came through it to win the 2001 BTCC title

Al Unser Sr is the only driver to win all three IndyCar 500-mile races in a season. Former Chaparral mechanic Hywel Absalom recalls working alongside a driver blessed with vast natural ability

Ferdinand Porsche's radical V16 engine was the perfect fit for grand prix racing's new pre-war formula. In the hands of Auto Union's Bernd Rosemeyer, it brought German dominance to circuits across Europe

135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 5 Ferdinand Porsche has featured once already in this series, but for most the name is more commonly associated…

Offenhauser engines powered Indy 500 winners for an incredible 18-consecutive races. Lawrence Butcher looks at the story behind all the success

Twenty years after the event, all that’s left is a sentimental blue and yellow kaleidoscope of memories: a vertiginous rush of details made all the more poignant by the fact…

At the end of a year in which Honda of Japan have shone so brightly in Formula 1, let’s spool back some 30 years to the Group C World Sportscar…

Yann Ehrlacher, the World Touring Car Cup champion and nephew to Yvan Muller, is 25 years old – which means he was born in 1996. By then, Gabriele Tarquini’s Formula…

"It was a great club. I’m amazed somebody hasn’t restarted it.” That’s Sir Jackie Stewart’s take on the Steering Wheel Club, Mayfair home from home for racing drivers. In the…

There’s a new Mecca for British rally fans and it’s a surprise beacon of colourful exotica shining bright from a run-of-the-mill industrial estate in Chichester. Situated a stone’s throw off…

We have already rated Lewis Hamilton's F1 wins from 100 to 90 in order of greatness, and now comes the top 10: the finest victories from Hamilton's grand prix career.…

Ten years after his tragic passing, Dario Franchitti and Bryan Herta remember what made Dan Wheldon such a formidable force on the ovals

We’re out the back now, the chicanes behind us. The oil is warm, the slicks are hot. I can feel the V12 chuntering behind me. It is demanding its release.…

André Lotterer has a hunch he might be the most experienced single-seater racing driver in history, despite his record including just one solitary Formula 1 grand prix start. He must…