Chopard has been the loyal partner of the celebrated Mille Miglia endurance car rally since 1988, the close collaboration growing from brand co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele’s lifelong passion for owning, driving…
Regular Precision readers might recall the story of the Brooklands Watch Company, which was founded in 2017 by aviator, aero-mechanical engineer and saloon car racer Simon Jeffs, who launched his…
It was back in 2009 when Felipe Massa suffered life-threatening injuries during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, losing control of his Ferrari at 175mph as a result of being…
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…
Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race, and for all I know she may always carry that mantle. OK, her famous victory in…
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…
1962 Porsche 804 December 1960: a gloomy silence descends on a test cell in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. A still relatively small – approximately 1250 staff – but realistically effective car company renowned…
Twenty five years ago Valentino Rossi became the last rider to win the MotoGP crown riding a two-stroke motorcycle. The two-stroke engine had ruled MotoGP from the mid-1970s because two-strokes…
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…
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,…
5. 2003: Solberg vs Loeb vs Sainz Subaru’s Norwegian star Petter Solberg, above – ‘Hollywood’ – lay a point adrift of Citroën pair Carlos Sainz and Sébastien Loeb going into…
