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…
I wasn’t expecting this None of us were. When Toyota’s factory racing arm Gazoo Racing (better known as just GR these days) said it was launching a new performance product…
All season we have been waxing lyrical about the brilliant progress that Kimi Antonelli has made between his rookie season last year and his second campaign in 2026, but the…
Can you think of a worse time to have launched a business selling an expensive, single-seat racing car for the road than 2009, just months after markets went into meltdown…
There are some drivers whose careers can be measured easily in statistics, their achievements neatly catalogued in tables of wins and championships. There are others whose contribution to motor sport…
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take shape. The McLaren MP4 would famously laminate a new technology…
Bonneville SpeedWeek is in its 78th year. It possesses a spirit akin to the Isle of Man TT, its sprawling paddock emanating the same camaraderie and robustly mutual respect that…
Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic on land. To witness him holding court in the local,…
This may not be the car readers of this august journal have been waiting for, for these last 10 years, but it is the car its creator has wanted and,…
It’s been ages since we had a new Indycar Sure has. The current Dallara DW12 – named in honour of the much-missed Dan Wheldon – was introduced back in 2012…
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
