It’s hard to believe it’s 30 years since world-class endurance racing virtually died on its feet. Only eight FIA World Sportscar Championship rounds were run in 1991, and in general…

New technical directives were issued on consecutive weekends at both the French and Styrian grands prix regarding, respectively, tyre pressures and pit stop equipment. The former was in response to…

The story of Jean Rondeau, the last garagista to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, is a tale of grit, determination and against-the-odds endeavour that propelled the Frenchman from near-obscurity…

Unsurprisingly my favourite events of the motoring year take place at Goodwood, but not far behind is the Festival of the Unexceptional, held this year at the end of July…

Julian Bailey was always the dark horse of British motor sport’s 1980s ‘Rat Pack’. A tough, dour working class lad born and bred in a council house in Woolwich, he…

Culturally and politically, this was a time of a change in a world that was about to have its horizons broadened by something called ‘the internet’, whatever that might be……

February is never easy. But in my household the cold, dark mornings were brightened by live cricket on terrestrial TV beamed direct from a warm-looking Chennai. Coverage of the England-India…

Forty years ago Alan Jones clinched the world championship by driving his only title rival Nelson Piquet off the road at the first corner of the Canadian Grand Prix. Piquet…