Tiring of old tyres
My life with the few old and unimportant cars I own is a perpetual quest to improve them. Oddly but in the overwhelming majority of cases this involves returning them…
Nick Padmore’s fast-growing reputation in historic racing stepped up another gear at the 44th annual Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring over the weekend when he scooped a double win…
…maniac by nature. What’s the beef with Austrian GP winner Andrea Iannone? I like Andrea Iannone. There, I said it. I like him because he is MotoGP’s pantomime villain, a…
Zak Brown and United Autosports prepared for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion by taking the fleet of historic race cars to Laguna Seca and the Monterey Pre-Reunion over the weekend, claiming victory…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It had been 12 months since Rudi Caracciola wagged a finger, the established ace considering his…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Winning as slowly as possible was not Gilles Villeneuve’s usual modus operandi. He had no option…
Some of the greatest names in US racing remember the 1967 Indy 500, won by AJ Foyt. Parnelli Jones, who celebrates his 83rd birthday today (August 12), dominated the race…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It almost didn’t happen. Angered by its disqualification from the lead of the supporting 12-hour sports…
The final instalment of Fergus Walkinshaw's two-day restoration of a first-generation Range Rover at the Silverstone Classic. Using only parts surced on eBay, he and his team fully renovated the Range Rover in…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring one of the greatest Grand Prix drivers ever, Hungarian and Austrian Grands Prix and much more. August 8 1904: Tazio…
The greatest win for one of the greatest ever Grand Prix drivers, Tazio Nuvolari at the Nürburgring in 1935. It's 63 years to the day since the Italian died of a…
Our next journey into the Motor Sport sound archive resurrects a Track Torque radio show with a difference. My loyal chief mechanic Mike Lawrence presents this one, the first and…
The best driver never to win a world championship Grand Prix won plenty elsewhere. The late Chris Amon’s victory CV included: the outright win that set McLaren’s lucrative ‘Can-Am’ ball…
The Porsche 917 scored its first-ever race win 47 years ago today, when Jo Siffert and Kurt Ahrens won the 1969 Austrian Grand Prix, or the Austrian 1,000 Kilometres. Hear from Brian…
Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne was speaking to FUCHS Silkolene, one of the main partners of the four-time British Superbike Champion To come away with my first double win of the season…
The reigning world champion finds himself in a very deep hole. Can he dig himself out? I wonder where Jorge Lorenzo has been on holiday. I imagine him making a…
Happy-go-lucky Frenchman Patrick Depailler would have been 72 today. If you need a reminder of his flair, car control and fearlessness, go onboard with him at a sodden Montreal in…