Motor Sport track tests

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

The look on Martin Brundle’s face the minute he walks into the garage at Silverstone is a picture. There’s an instant flicker of recognition. The same reaction as meeting an…

David Coulthard cuts the ignition, wiggles the red leather steering wheel and folds his arms. "Well, if you'd just like to put me in the back of the truck I'll…

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…

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…

Which was the last Aston Martin to lead Le Mans? I always thought it was Project DP212, the DB4GT-based prototype whose slippery shape combined with the right foot of Graham…