Ferrari’s F1 Finest 4th, 641 << Ferrari 246 Dino: Front runner >> Ferrari 312T: Central figure No doubt about it, John Barnard’s 640 had caused a stir in 1989, with its semi-automatic gearbox, svelte…

1 Alberto Ascari I didn’t know Alberto that well. I can remember seeing Alberto and Fangio driving. At a corner Ascari would nearly touch the straw bale, whereas Fangio would…

Goodwood hangs in a freezing mist of rain. Inside the great house, a familiar crowd shuffles between coffee trays and long handshakes. They’ve come to hear the Earl’s plans for…

“You go to Bonneville and you take a really heavy car with narrow wheels. We turned up with a really light car with big balloon tyres, and the first time…

“It was the best track in France; better by far than everywhere else we went like Rouen, Reims and Paul Ricard.” The words belong to Jackie Stewart, a man not…

It’s a long list, the CV of Ken Gregory. Driver, team manager, constructor, director of Brands Hatch, mainstay of the BRSCC and 500cc clubs, race organiser, writer, publisher, airline owner,…

When he first came to the notice of Europeans, Yoshio Nakamura was pigeon-holed with the usual ‘inscrutable’ tag so beloved of westerners encountering an Asian person for the first time.…

I have recently spent some time with a remarkable woman, so spirited, so passionate, so bright-eyed. And she is 85 years old. We salute the first woman to race in…

If you’re a top Formula 1 driver, you are a driven man. As well as all those skills and physical attributes, you are motivated by abnormally high levels of determination,…