Anyone who has been part of a crew during a typical sailing regatta will know that it can be a simultaneously frantic, thrilling, uplifting, terrifying, energising and exhausting business –…
To the names of life-savers such as Mike Hailwood, Arturo Merzario, Guy Edwards and Brett Lunger, we can now add another hero. On the first weekend of September, Loek Hartog…
Trying too hard can be worse than not trying hard enough. There is no effortless fluency here, more a bad case of pre-commitment jitters on entry to a tight right-hander.…
The winning Rothmans Porsche crossed the finish line and pulled over, its engine kaput. The chasing sister car, running low on fuel, couldn’t have gone much further either. Both factory…
1962 Porsche 804 December 1960: a gloomy silence descends on a test cell in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. A still relatively small – approximately 1250 staff – but realistically effective car company renowned…
This shouldn’t be possible. Revs held on the red line and then sidestep the pedal on the left. Smoke, fury, thrust. Dip the pedal, lift the throttle, rip the lever…
Wandering around the big hangar at the last Sunday Scramble at Bicester Motion, my eyes were drawn to the squat but somehow still beautiful red racing car parked in the…
Singapore Oct 9-11 Grand prix wins have been like buses for Max Verstappen in 2026. He waited seven months for his first, then took two on the trot. Add to…
The world feels in a crazy place at the moment and Formula 1, as ever, is a microcosm of that world. This was never more apparent than in the opening…
The ground has barely stopped shaking. Eyes are streaming from the lingering nitromethane and car alarms are going off around the paddock, leaving the fans lining the Santa Pod Raceway…
Back in 1974 Porsche created the 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1. Despite being the Stuttgart firm’s first ever 911 turbo racer, it finished second overall at Le Mans beating every…
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
I must confess I have a lot to be thankful to Gordon Murray for in keeping the ‘who designed the MP4/4’ debate alive and kicking. You will be aware, I…
Every few years I become a BRM history obsessive. This has certainly been true in recent weeks while putting the finishing touches to Volume 4 of my ‘BRM Saga’, the…
Ah, the Goodwood Revival. It was a weekend of tribulation. First up, I was in a Mini with Bill Sollis in the St Mary’s Trophy. There’s a reason one Mini…
