Many of the world’s great circuits have their signature corners. Spa has Eau Rouge, Suzuka 130R, Monza the Parabolica and so on. Their reputations have been earned for their challenging…
Steve Nichols, who designed the McLaren MP4/4 and worked alongside Senna, has built a 730bhp Can-Am-inspired road-legal trackday car
Motor Sport has taken a whole host of brilliant racing machines on-track in 2025 – here's the full round-up
PAUL RICARD, SEPTEMBER 5-7 Following three days of testing, it was time for more Peter Auto action, racing four cars with John Emberson: Morgan SLR; Chevron B26 Chocolate Drop (second…
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In the end, it is just a car. You sit with a steering wheel in your hands. You change gear by shifting a lever fore and aft, working your way…
Okay, so the contract for 1994 may not be in the post, but when I got the chance to drive the championship-winning Williams I really wanted to make a good…
This is as much a tale of two people as two cars, and despite the images on these pages, neither of them is called Bentley. If two cars ever came…
Have you ever driven a Ferrari Challenge car before?” enquires a thickly Italian-accented voice from behind a full-face helmet. The man speaking is none other than Giampiero Simoni, a legend…
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dean Smith Well this was going to be a first. I’ve been track testing cars for this title for 28 years and can recall just one occasion on which…
John Watson loved his Chevron sports car cameo. Especially his dalliance with this, the 2-litre B26 known universally as ‘Chocolate Drop’. Bizarrely, it was the second of two brown racing…
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The true value of most great technological breakthroughs can usually only be appreciated with the benefit of hindsight. Life didn’t change the moment Karl Benz first swung his Motorwagen into…
The back straight is quite short, but we’re already running out of revs in top gear. The 100-year-old car is now in a proper hurtle, engine bellowing, tyres singing their…
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Reynard in a Reynard? This we’ve got to see. Especially as the car in question is peak Formula 3000, the long-defunct Formula 1 feeder that roamed Europe as a gloriously…
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"Okay. But please ask the announcer to tell the crowd why I’m not waving.” Sir Stirling Moss – the original professional racing driver and at the age of 80 still…
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These are none other than the first and last Porsches to win the Le Mans 24 Hours during the legendary Group C era. Not examples of those cars, but the…
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The overalls still fit and so, by definition, does the cockpit. Thirty years on from the most successful season of his racing career, Kenny Acheson is easing back behind the…
