'The R500 era was best': why drivers loved Ford's 200mph touring car
Sponsored by The choice of two iconic, bewinged Sierra Cosworth RS500s for Scalextric’s new touring car set wasn’t exactly a tough one. Has there ever been a better-loved or…
Portraits: Jayson Fong Dad-and-lad stories, of parent-offspring bonding over the course of a plucky rise to racing glory, are common. But few are as unlikely and colourful as that of…
The 2024 Bathurst is set to be one of the great event's best yet – get up to speed on a race featuring 26 monstrous V8 Supercars
Jason Plato's career looked to have run out of gas – until the future BTCC star took matters into his own hands
My family car as a child... A Ferrari Dino! My father was a Ferrari dealer in Guernsey and I still remember the day when he came home from work in…
Nigel Mansell made a glorious return to racing with the BTCC in 1998 - in the latest episode of our 'Engineering the Greats' podcasts, Dick Bennetts recalls how the Brit wowed the crowd with a masterful performance at Donington Park
Graham Hill offered a “friendly finger sign” as he passed Jack Sears and the parked Ford Galaxie during Thursday practice at Silverstone. He was laughing on the other side of…
A "stupid answer to a stupid question" nearly torpedoed Rob Huff's touring car career, as he explains in our latest issue
The World Touring Car Cup is no more, but in its place has come racing's biggest competition: the TCR World Cup. More than 650 drivers from across the globe are eligible for a place in the grand final to crown the winner
Igor Skuz was known to be a determined, no-compromise warrior in touring cars – now he's using the same qualities in the battle for Ukraine
Rob Huff has stood on the highest step of international touring car podiums but came into 2022 with no car and seemingly little hope. He tells Damien Smith how the season ended up being one of his greatest
Choosing one rival from World Touring Car or DTM is difficult. There are so many drivers capable of winning and the competition is extreme. For example, in 2006, at the…
Ferrari attracted plenty of criticism for not favouring F1 title contender Charles Leclerc at the British Grand Prix. But the crude use of team orders at a WTCR race that weekend showed the risks of intervening, writes Damien Smith
I’ve had a few great rivals but the biggest was Colin Turkington. We were team-mates at BMW for three years and we fought each other for the championship in the…
I’ve been racing for 46 years so there have been a lot of great rivals. There was Jacques Villeneuve, who I beat to win the Japanese F3 championship, Eddie Irvine,…
Two years ago, Taylor Hagler realised suddenly – and sickeningly – that she’d reached the big time as she listened to the “Star Spangled Banner” blasting over the loudspeakers before…
Canadian Robert Wickens, who was paralysed from the chest down in a ghastly IndyCar wreck three years ago, will return to professional racing later this month at Daytona International Speedway…