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The man in the cowboy hat pushes open the café door. The few people tucking in to breakfast stop, forks poised, mouths open. The tiny, wiry figure is wearing pale…

Jansen van Vuuren is loving this. Usually he works as a booking clerk at Jan Smuts Airport, but this week the 19-year-old from Johannesburg has taken up station at the…

The Chaparral 2F is enshrined in motor racing lore as the car that allowed the underrated Mike Spence to demonstrate his true mettle. Spotted by Colin Chapman at the Monaco…

What was the greatest moment in sports car racing? Some might well say Pedro Rodríguez’s win in the ’71 Österreichring 1000Km was unassailable for its sheer spectacle, other’s that the…

The Forgotten Races - 1971 Osterreichring 1000km In retrospect, the 1971 Austrian 1000km for sportscars was a poignant event for all sorts of reasons. But at the time, that damp…

Ten years ago British rallying got the same kind of boost as that recently experienced by English cricket when, on November 22 1995, Colin McRae captured the title of World…

It might seem impudent to run a feature in the pages of Motor Sport on Jenson Button, a 20 year-old Formula 1 new boy yet to score a podium place.…

About the last thing you’d expect to see in the Indianapolis Speedway museum is Rudolf Caracciola’s pre-war Grand Prix trophies, won when he raced for Mercedes in Europe. Yet they…

My spell with Brabham, at the time when Jack started building racing cars, came about after mechanical and production engineering training on a student apprenticeship at Hawker Aircraft in Kingston,…

With the Grand Prix of France taking place on the newly-built multi-million-pound Paul Ricard circuit alongside the Castellet aerodrome, about equi-distant from Marseilles and Toulon, it was natural that the…

Time was when Phil Hill would speak and write with some vitriol about Ferrari — both man and team. Despite bringing Ferrari a world title and three Le Mans victories,…

Parnelli Jones • 1933-2024 This article was first published in the March 2010 issue of Motor Sport If anyone defines the American racing driver of the 1960s it’s Parnelli Jones.…

Having begun as a motorcycle grass track as far back as the 1920s, Brands Hatch has been a racing circuit for over 60 years. For more than half that time…

Bonneville Salt Flat is a door to the outer limits – a place of strangeness where almost anything can be imagined, almost anything can be achieved. Sahara hot in the…

When I was first taken, as a small boy in the 1950s, to Goodwood, Silverstone and Castle Combe, Stirling Moss was of course the man we all wanted to see.…

1 Alberto Ascari I didn’t know Alberto that well. I can remember seeing Alberto and Fangio driving. At a corner Ascari would nearly touch the straw bale, whereas Fangio would…

Goodwood hangs in a freezing mist of rain. Inside the great house, a familiar crowd shuffles between coffee trays and long handshakes. They've come to hear the Earl's plans for…