Sports Car News

Many fans enjoy vivid memories of the original unlimited Can-Am series. The big sports-racers from that era are also very popular today in historic races around the world and it’s…

Everyone is familiar with the excellent record Roger Penske’s racing team has accumulated over almost 50 years. Since Roger founded his team in 1966 what is now known as Team…

Our mechanic’s tale this week comes from a man who started work in the pitlane half a century ago – yes, half a century ago, and he’s still going strong,…

Tom Kristensen today announced his retirement after 18 seasons at the forefront of top level sports car racing. His record at Le Mans may never be equalled: from those 18…

There’s little doubt in most of our minds, is there not, that the ‘60s produced the greatest generation of racing drivers we’ve ever had the pleasure to see in action.…

Here's a Motor Sport exclusive: the trailer for a new documentary about Le Mans from Fantelli Productions. More specifically, it's about Jota Sport, the small British team that won the…

Back in 1977 Patrick Tambay won the Can-Am championship with Carl Haas’s team, thus earning himself aFormula 1 ride with McLaren for the following year. Tambay drove for McLaren in 1978…

Well that’s another season in North America wrapped up, and our first in the United SportsCar Championship. As readers of this column will know, it hasn’t been a great season…

Last week the podcast team paid a visit to Pagham on the south coast to see Derek Bell. If you've heard our last podcast with the five-time Le Mans winner,…

How would you define a ‘great’ racing car? Race wins and championship titles are an obvious place to start – and admittedly, when we began the process of rounding up…

Here’s something you might not know: in 2008 I won the Indianapolis 500. Sort of. I was killing time in the Playdium, a huge video game arcade in Mississauga, Ontario.…

“I love this place,” he grins as we look out over the pits towards the huge grandstand. “I’ve been coming here since 1970 and it’s still such an exhilarating place…

P4. Two syllables to send shivers down your spine — or mine, anyway. In a debate about the best-looking sports-racing car of all time, my choice would lie between the…

"I've won everything in sportscars, except of course, the Le Mans 24 Hours. And of all the near misses, it was the 1998 race that was particularly terrible for me…

Judging by how far the man holding the microphone-on-a-stick jumps back as the car fires up, our fervent hope that this Le Mans-winner's turbo V6 might not bust today's noise…

If ever proof was needed that for some people, things come all too easily, then look no further than the case of one Stirling Moss. In 1961 he secured his…

Broadley speaking It is hard to pinpoint precisely when Eric Broadley went from being a special builder to becoming a constructor, but in 1958 he appeared with his Lola-Climax Mk1…