Driving Porsche's 'Can-Am killer': our surprising verdict on 1100bhp 917/30
The little door flips up to reveal an impossibly wide sill for you to step over. But step you do and, taking care over where to put your hands and…
Motor Racing Legends When It Comes to Running Polished and Entertaining Historic Racing Events, Motor Racing Legends Is up There with The Best. from Packed Grids with Huge Variety to…
August 5, 1973 Nürburgring, West Germany A busy scene in the Lotus garage at the 1973 German Grand Prix, Round 11 of 15 of the F1 World Championship. Drivers Emerson…
2014 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £4.1M This Veyron was one of three cars built to kick-off the Legends series of limited editions that paid tribute…
Ferrari Sports Car Racing Rainer W Schlegelmilch Published by Taschen, this 356-page book, 344mm x 408mm, is limited to 1500 signed copies. £850
Trying too hard can be worse than not trying hard enough. There is no effortless fluency here, more a bad case of pre-commitment jitters on entry to a tight right-hander.…
Where their sons are concerned, mums have much to answer for. Certainly none other than Enzo Ferrari was deeply influenced, indeed in many ways shaped, by his formidable mother, Adalgisa…
The winning Rothmans Porsche crossed the finish line and pulled over, its engine kaput. The chasing sister car, running low on fuel, couldn’t have gone much further either. Both factory…
A most interesting item in the November 2026 issue about drag racing at Santa Pod [Playing with fire]. Exactly a year ago we achieved one of the longer times down…
Wandering around the big hangar at the last Sunday Scramble at Bicester Motion, my eyes were drawn to the squat but somehow still beautiful red racing car parked in the…
Denis Jenkinson wasn’t impressed with the diminutive Dijon-Prenois circuit, which had just staged its first world championship grand prix – and offered up sub-one-minute lap times. “The mini-Grand Prix of…
I don’t know if Daimler-Benz still do this, but the mighty German motor company used to circulate Grand Prix race news of its factory team’s activities to the workers in…
Motor racing is a harsh world. If you can put a driver back behind the wheel, if they have been let down, shoved out or de-contracted by the system, then…
The closure of Goodwood motor circuit in 1966 marked the end of an era. Since 1948 this classic track had been perceived as the spiritual home of British motor racing,…
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £13.8M The huge prices for modern supercars may have been the talk of this year’s Monterey auctions, but the remarkable sum…