Forget Oxfordshire’s Motorsport Valley. If you want real racing heartland take a look at Norfolk. Obviously there is Snetterton race track with its once distinctive ’scary tree’ and, of course,…
Piero Drogo was behind perhaps the the most exquisite competition sports car ever seen. But few know how the racing driver came to create the Ferrari 330 P4. Matt Bishop tells his story
Photo gallery of the very first British Grand prix at Brooklands in 1926
Celebrating the centenary of the first British Grand Prix at Brooklands
More than 100 cars, from Alfa Romeo to Zakspeed are set to celebrate the centenary of Britain's first grand prix at Brooklands
A New Zealand farm boy turned Cambridge law student turned grand prix driver - Matt Bishop tells the quietly remarkable story of a man history nearly forgot
April 18, 1976 Mallory Park, Leicestershire Bill Hodgkins and John Parkins of Joe Francis Motors Yamaha (No37) lead Roger Aldous and Peter Lucock of Royton Racing Harris Kawasaki (No12) in…
Let us start with an audacious understatement: there are not many drivers whose Formula 1 preparation involved making coffins. Perhaps there is only one, for that is where Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s…
As the Greek tragedians demonstrated two millennia ago, every great protagonist demands an equally formidable antagonist. For Jackie Stewart, it was a bespectacled journalist with a long, wispy beard for…
Ooh la la. Since 2002, the Le Mans Classic had been a highlight of the historic racing calendar – but only in alternate years. But the biennial shackles are now…
You are at this drinks do or that dinner party with friends and neighbours and the conversation turns to where you have been, what do you do – usual stuff.…
Forty years ago Gordon Murray introduced the world to the Brabham BT55, a car whose roller-skate profile looks extraordinary even today, never mind when compared with some of its ungainly…
There was a time when circuit corner names were utilitarian labels, nothing more. Even for the greatest curves, inspiration was drawn from local landmarks or topography: think of Eau Rouge…
At the time of writing it is the Saturday of British Grand Prix weekend. Like me, I am sure countless readers will recognise that as qualifying day. This year, however,…
Everyone knows Harley-Davidson doesn’t do racing motorcycles. The venerable Milwaukee marque appeals to a different tribe of motorcyclists, selling them machines christened Low Riders, Road Glides and Fat Boys. It’s…
We know it must be true – it was part of the storyline in a ‘fact-based’ Hollywood movie. Shelby Ford driver Ken Miles was effectively cheated of victory at Le…
