Touring cars

  A round of the European Touring Car Challenge at Mallory Park? The 1960s were ripe with possibilities that would nowadays be unthinkable, as these photos from Chris Mitchell confirm

Back in February, just before our world turned upside down, Motor Sport headed to Paris for the launch of Pure ETCR, an all-new electric touring car series that looked set…

It wasn’t the rasp of internal combustion that first marked this out as a day unlike any other in the recent past, nor that competing cars had three dimensions. Rather,…

Motor racing has a way of changing perceptions. Success on the track can rejuvenate the appeal of even the most humdrum of models. Racing did exactly this for the Alfa Romeo…

Did we hear that correctly? Colin Turkington has just phoned in his apologies. He is running slightly late because he is bringing a car on a trailer and loading it…

Audi's announcement that it will leave DTM at the end of the year has put the series' survival into doubt, with BMW left as the only factory outfit - for now. Can it recover?

Andy Rouse managed to combine racing and business to great success, taking four BSCC titles in 1975, ’83, ’84 and ’85 and breaking records along the way. Below the headline…

He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car Championship in the mid-1990s, was at the helm of the…

Audi announces its withdrawal from DTM at the end of the 2020 season, leaving only BMW confirmed for 2021

Plans have been revealed for the world’s first multi-brand, all-electric touring car racing series that, organisers say, will differentiate itself from Formula E by promoting performance over efficiency to change…

Robert Kubica will race in the DTM championship this year, after confirming a deal with the French ART Grand Prix team to run a BMW M4. The 35-year-old has been…

The Winkelhock family has tried many branches of the sport. The legacy began with Manfred Winkelhock – a veteran of 56 grands prix – who was killed during an accident…

It’s July 1988 and I’m at Brands Hatch, waiting impatiently between Druids and Graham Hill Bend for the manic pack of RS500 Cosworths, E30 M3s and assorted Class C and…

Maranello and Mladá Boleslav: both are touchstones on motor sport’s landscape, yet one is famous the world over while the other is known barely at all. The less celebrated of…

Formula 1 was often discussed in the Green family household, but not in the way you might imagine. “My dad raced stock cars and my brother still does,” Jamie says.…

20. Nicola Larini The Italian’s performance in the 1993 German Touring Car Championship (aka Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, DTM ) was stupefying. As the series entered its hi-tech phase he grabbed…

Oil. It’s what our sport runs on. It’s vital, but in the wrong place it can ruin all your plans. It happened to Andy Rouse late in 1977. The place:…