Touring cars

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

The WTCR will race one last time on a modified Jeddah circuit – but with F1, Dakar and Formula E already visiting, Saudi Arabia isn't in short supply of motor sport

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…

February 18, 1979. Notionally the focus should have been on Richard Petty as he extended his Daytona 500 victory tally to six in the first full NASCAR race broadcast live…

Yann Ehrlacher, the World Touring Car Cup champion and nephew to Yvan Muller, is 25 years old – which means he was born in 1996. By then, Gabriele Tarquini’s Formula…

IN THE SPIRIT OF BOD AND JENKS Editorial +44 (0) 20 7349 8484 [email protected] 18-20 Rosemont Road, London NW3 6NE, UK Editor Joe Dunn Editors-at-Large Gordon Cruickshank & Simon Arron…

Tony Dron towered above the cohort of mid-sixties aspiring young motoring journalists both physically but also with his skill at the wheel of a racing car and with the typewriter.…

Gordon Spice, who has died aged 81 after a long battle with cancer, was one of British motor racing’s great characters and one of the finest tin-top drivers of his…

The notion of what wins on Saturday sells on Monday has driven production car racing for decades. From the European Touring Car Championship of the 1960s to the BTCC, there’s…

Do you loathe electric cars? Does the whine of Formula E make you gnash your teeth? Do you scoff at those celebrity do-gooders on their climate change crusade in Extreme…

When GT specialist Nicky Catsburg got the chance to drive for Lada in the World Touring Car Championship back in 2015, he received plenty of advice not to do it.…