Great Read

Colin Chapman's stunning Lotus Type 66 Can-Am design lay rolled up in a draw for over 50 years – James Elson speaks to the people who brought it to life in 2023

Somewhere in a parallel universe tractor maker Ferguson is held in the same esteem as those other tractor constructors Lamborghini and Porsche. And maybe in that world another tractor builder,…

Thirty years after Alain Prost won the 1993 Formula 1 world championship the Williams FW15C remains the most advanced F1 car ever to race, perhaps challenged only by the McLaren…

Gilles Villeneuve wrestled the Ferrari 126C to two grand prix wins in 1981, but his podium finish at that year's Canadian Grand Prix in torrential conditions, with a damaged car, should be celebrated too, says Matt Bishop

The Arrows glides down the pitlane, in silence for the last few metres as Derek Warwick cuts the Cosworth. The belts are undone before it’s stopped and he lithely pops…

I knew I’d be busy, but not this busy. I’m at Donington, one of my favourite circuits, the weather is perfect, the track inexplicably quiet for an unsilenced test day.…

At the 1976 Dutch GP James Hunt battled against some of F1's fiercest '70s heroes and a crumbling McLaren M23 to win at Zandvoort – its greatest race, says Matt Bishop

1. 1953 Staride-Norton Notable by its up-front cockpit, Xavier Kingsland’s Staride unusually boasts a central fuel tank. After finding the much-modified car in the US he returned it to original…

20 - Rolf Stommelen Bespectacled and spectacular, a precocious talent unfulfilled in F1 Signed by Porsche when just 22 in 1966, he finished second consecutively at the Nürburgring 1000Kms from…

Riccardo Patrese, World Kart Champion in 1974, graduated rapidly through the lower formulae, propelled by passionate ambition and bags of natural talent. He took his place on the grand prix…

F1 Retro
Chris Amon was one of the most naturally gifted drivers F1 has ever seen – Mark Hughes remembers a man who deserved much more, but never looked back in bitterness

He preferred Brands Hatch and wasn't impressed by the race, but Matt Bishop was still at Silverstone in 1979 to witness history at the British Grand Prix: the final hurrah of one F1 winner, and the first for a budding legend of the sport

Graham Hill offered a “friendly finger sign” as he passed Jack Sears and the parked Ford Galaxie during Thursday practice at Silverstone. He was laughing on the other side of…

Carrera Panamericana: 1950-1954 Through the early 1950s the Mexican Carrera Panamericana proved itself to be the most inspiringly exotic, challenging – and positively dangerous – great public road race on…

Growing up, I was never really someone excited by supercars or GT cars, apart from a Ferrari F40. My world revolved around Formula 1 and while the Indy 500 and…

Micky Burn did not realise the controversy and mayhem his words would cause. While his were the words, they were the thoughts of Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin, for Burn was…

It won five Le Mans 24 Hour victories and launched an era of single-manufacturer domination: the Audi R8 conquered endurance racing in the early 2000s, and Audi threw everything at its development