Aprilia has been chasing MotoGP glory on and off since the 1990s without success. Until now. The Italian brand made its name in the 1980s and 1990s with finely honed…
If you’ve ever been into a Porsche Design store you’ll know that the legendary German marque is involved in more than just making cars. It can sell you anything from…
The Zolder circuit, host of the Belgian Grand Prix most years from 1973 to ’84, has always had a bad rap, primarily for two reasons: one, it has the temerity…
Inflation, it’ll get you… especially when you order the extras. Our Lola T292 project is ongoing to get it ready for June’s London Historic Trophy at Brands Hatch, and I’m…
How many of us, who don’t live in Germany, remember the Motodrom Gelsenkirchen? We’d wager very few but it remains a part of the country’s illustrious motor racing history. This…
Wait, isn’t Lola dead? It was. The original Lola ceased trading in 2012 but was revived in 2022 when businessman and racer Till Bechtolsheimer (who handled a Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini…
He ended Saturday’s new-for-2026 qualifying race in the gravel trap, which meant he started race one on Sunday from 21st and last on the grid. So how did Ash Sutton…
If you were expecting fanfares, ceremonials or a parade of marching elephants – like Verdi’s epic Aida chorus – to celebrate Lancia’s return to rallying, you would have been disappointed.…
It has always taken a little more time than usual to get things done at Indianapolis. It is a city that operates at a deliberate pace. Do not go too…
The broad-brushstrokes generalisation of 1976 is that this was the year when motor sport moved from the back pages of the newspapers to the front. But, in reality, it had…
Brands Hatch, which this year celebrates its centenary since opening as a venue for cycling, enjoyed its inaugural car racing meeting on April 16, 1950. The event, organised by the…
While Chimay is not, strictly speaking, a ‘lost circuit’, this historic Belgian race track is but a shadow of its former self, the glory days long consigned to the sport’s…
5. 1976 Tour de Corse Munari’s 24-valve factory Stratos pushed out 280bhp to the 255 of the 12-valve version of French privateer Bernard Darniche, but torrential rain evened things out.…
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
Formula 1’s new era has officially begun and as I write this on the Monday after the Chinese Grand Prix, we are starting to get some early signs of how…
The first two races of Formula 1’s biggest ever regulation re-set, and we can say that it has fundamentally changed the very pattern of racing in a way that has…
