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People associate Colin McRae with Subaru, understandably. But he also drove for Citroën in the 2003 season, alongside team-mates Sébastien Loeb and Carlos Sainz – and that’s not a bad…

To some observers the World Rally Championship has lost its way in recent years. The fact every driver’s title since 2004 has been taken by a Frenchman named Sébastien is…

“Life without sideways is monotonous,” shouts Ari Vatanen as he slaloms up a dirt track towards his local restaurant. “We need salt in life and, for the rally driver, gravel…

In 1964, when the late Mike Twite picked up this very Alan Mann Mustang to write about it for Motor Sport, he expected that to be a final voyage before the…

Niki Lauda breaks every mould that has ever been made for a sports star. Or any normal human being, come to that. You will frequently read stories of how champions…

You walk to the Fiorano circuit, escorted from the reception area at the famous Ferrari gate in Maranello. Crossing Via Abetone Inferiore we’re marched between the contrasting vistas of the…

Back in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Bruce McLaren became renowned as a world-class racing driver – and also for being one of the nicest guys in motor…

It may be 60 years gone, but Tony Brooks has the details of his abortive 1957 Pescara Grand Prix to hand, in the racing journal he kept throughout his driving…

The death and injury toll in the 1903 Paris-Madrid event was so severe that it was stopped early, and brought about a road racing ban in France and Spain. Among the grim list of casualties was Marcel Renault: one of the co-founders of the car-making empire

Though turbos were stripped back by Formula 1 regulations in the late '80s, McLaren and Honda still managed to squeeze the most out of them as their extinction drew near

As a large and somewhat unconventional executive saloon, the Rover SD1 made an unlikely tin-top hero. Yet in the space of just a handful of years it forged success from…

Forty years ago Frank Williams left the company he’d lost and started again – in an old carpet warehouse his friend Dave Brodie had found for him, with a second-hand…

2017 Williams FW40 All the way through the 2017 season I’ve been going to races and hearing drivers talk about just how amazing this generation of cars is. The bigger…

The public persona of Red Bull’s ‘driver chief without portfolio’ Dr Helmut Marko is very different from the man behind that mask. And he doesn’t give a fig about that;…

David Brabham remembers asking his dad Jack what it takes to be a truly great racer. It was a big question for the young driver, but if he was expecting…

In the late 1990s, there were rumours of a Nigel Mansell comeback. Would it be with Jordan in Formula 1; with Porsche at Le Mans? In 1998, the answer arrived, as Mansell lined up alongside Ari Vatanen at Chamonix

It’s July 1988 and I’m at Brands Hatch, waiting impatiently between Druids and Graham Hill Bend for the manic pack of RS500 Cosworths, E30 M3s and assorted Class C and…