The versatile Michael Lyons
Drivers such as Michael Lyons don’t really exist any more. Contemporary racing drivers can be found in the odd Mini or sports racer, thanks mainly to Goodwood and the Silverstone…
Twelve months ago Sam Bird was stood on a temporary podium erected in Battersea Park having won the final race of the inaugural Formula E season. A reasonable crowd gathered…
Browse photos from the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Formula 1 goes to Zandvoort, Mexico and Detroit, sports cars go to Jarama and Mazda wins Le Mans, plus the rest of this week's milestones. Jim Clark and Team Lotus were dominant…
The Sean Edwards Foundation was the official charity partner of the 2016 Motor Sport Hall of Fame, and its founder Daphne McKinley Edwards spoke on stage of its importance during the awards ceremony…
Toyota’s bad luck at Le Mans may have reached a new height this year, but the bar hasn’t been raised too many notches. Go back 22 years and you’ll find…
It was the most remarkable press conference I have attended. It started out as the standard, once-a-year pre-Le Mans Porsche press briefing, and ended with Porsche motor sport boss Frank…
Only 30 or so years ago, the Le Mans pits were cramped beyond belief, quite grubby… and light years from the spacious working hubs they have since become. But by…
Sean Edwards’ mother is on a crusade to prevent the kind of accident that claimed her son’s life in 2013 Writer: Rob Widdows October 15, 2013 Sean Edwards was killed in…
On May 31 five more motor racing luminaries were inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame joining the likes of Enzo Ferrari, Ayrton Senna, John Surtees and James Hunt.…
Market forces Apart from the Mk1, Eric Broadley’s best designs have been drawn on a large canvas, and one immediately associates Lola with such as the T70, the T330 series…
It has the biggest build-up of them all. Pushing the hyper-machines through 24 hours of full-steam racing requires it. As well as the cars, it tests the drivers to…
Inevitably, being mid-June, there's plenty from Le Mans in this week's round-up from the Archive. José Froilán González went without sleep and food during the epic in 1954, but still managed…
The reward for an early start for the podcast team was an hour-long chat with David Richards, chairman of Prodrive. Winner of the World Rally Championship as co-driver for Ari Vatanen, he…
Recorded at his home in America, watch Dan Gurney accept his award for winning the US category of the 2016 Hall of Fame, as voted for by you. The other…
If ever there was a weekend that showed the remarkable diversity of historic motor sport, this weekend was it. Action ranged from Group C cars dicing around the sweeps of Dijon…
Sunday June 7, 1998. The day three-time Le Mans winner Allan McNish won the greatest race of them all for Porsche on just his second visit to Le Mans. The team of…