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If I tell you not to think of an elephant, what do you do? If I then repeat myself and suggest – this time more sternly – that you really…

The McLaren F1 GTR is the most successful British sports car of the modern era. It won more races than the Jaguar XJR9 and won at Le Mans, adding the…

It was nominated by readers of Motor Sport as the world's greatest racing car, and it's not hard to see why. Back-to-back Le Mans wins in 1970 and '71 and…

One evening, several years ago, and over a degustivo or two, Jenks was reminiscing about the Mille Miglia. "I've often thought," he said, "what fun it would have been to…

What do racers do when they stop racing? All that competitive edge has to go somewhere. Many attack the world of business with the same will to win that they…

1970 Formula Two Championship, Montjuich Park, Barcelona Everyone always assumes that when I choose my best ever race I would come up with something from sportscars or Formula One, but…

It seems hard to believe that Tony Rolt could be old enough to have raced at Donington, but the fact remains that, at the relatively tender age of twenty-one he…

Entering the final half-hour, Chinetti held a 21-second lead with Nuvolari, the 'Flying Mantuan', gaining. Chinetti stopped for fuel and the lead changed — again. WF Bradley of The Motor…

We all know that there is only one individual sports car in history to not only claim a World Championship but also Le Mans not once but twice. The story…

The formation finish, staged for the benefit of the cameras, has become commonplace at Le Mans thanks to a certain manufacturer from Germany. Before Audi’s domination of the event, though,…

Sometimes things just don’t turn out as they should. If you had been in the grandstands at Le Mans one lap into the 24-hour race of 1962, you’d have had…

Le Mans (Sarthe), June 14th. The Le Mans 24-hour race carries with it more tradition and history than any other event in the minds of most people and the occasion…

Take out of the equation those pedal-to-metal laps around the old eight-mile Spa-Francorchamps or the pre-Hella Licht-S Osterreichring, and a Porsche 917 couldn't live with a Formula 1 car in…

It's hard to think of a recent equivalent to the Matra racing regime. In one glorious decade, from 1965 to 1974, Matra fielded victorious Grand Prix cars and Le Mans…

Group Five race, Mainz-Finthen Airfield, 1978 Of course there have been a lot of memorable races over the years, especially in the days of the Porsche 962. I particularly remember…

This was one of those moments Spa seems to produce. It ranks with Mika Hakkinen's move on Michael Schumacher last year, or the first lap of the 1963 GP when…

Mercedes Wins "1,000 Miles" When on the morning of Sunday, 12th April, Rudolf Caracciola and Sebastian roared into Brescia on their giant white Mercedes-Benz, travel-stained with all the dust of…