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Step into the past with our latest news articles and features for historic car racing. Updates, opinion, interviews, events not to miss and more from across the world of historic car racing.
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Monterey auction results: the £13.8m Corvette Grand Sport leads the field
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…
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Santa Pod’s 2026 FIA European Finals deliver 286mph Funny Cars and 280mph Top Fuel
The ground has barely stopped shaking. Eyes are streaming from the lingering nitromethane and car alarms are going off around the paddock, leaving the fans lining the Santa Pod Raceway…
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Barbara Cartland’s 1931 Brooklands race was more staged than society admitted
YIn 1931 Barbara Cartland organised an all-female motoring event at Brooklands. British Movietone News had been there in November 1931 to capture the action of the Society Ladies’ Private Handicap;…
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Brooklands began with Hugh Locke King’s plan to give Britain a racing circuit
In September 1905, Hugh Locke King and his wife Ethel undertook a motoring tour to Italy with a plan to see the Coppa Brescia race, subsequently better known as the…
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Moss and the Ferguson P99: rain, four-wheel drive and Oulton Park victory
A Formula 1 race being won by Stirling Moss in 1961 was nothing unusual. But what has firmly positioned the Oulton Park Gold Cup of that year into motor sport…
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BRM H16: how Jim Clark delivered its only Grand Prix win at Watkins Glen
Every few years I become a BRM history obsessive. This has certainly been true in recent weeks while putting the finishing touches to Volume 4 of my ‘BRM Saga’, the…
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AJ Foyt’s later years: the IndyCar politics, Porsche 935s and crashes that shaped his legacy
Two years after the appearance of AJ Foyt Volume One: Survivor, Champion, Legend, its sequel, Legacy, continues the tale of this American motor racing hero, beginning in 1978 and bringing…
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Alex Brundle’s Goodwood Revival: Mini battles, a Lola T70 podium and a Cobra setback
Ah, the Goodwood Revival. It was a weekend of tribulation. First up, I was in a Mini with Bill Sollis in the St Mary’s Trophy. There’s a reason one Mini…
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Buenos Aires Costanera Norte hosted Fangio, Moss and the 1957 1000Kms
This month we visit a lost circuit in Argentina, this vast country having always had a passionate and faithful love of motor sports since the great Juan Manuel Fangio won…
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Jack Brabham and the F1 champions who built teams in their own name
5. Keke Rosberg It’s a race for our final spot between the ’82 world champion and his predecessor as F1 king, Nelson Piquet. But where Piquet Sports’ aim was to…
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Goodwood Revival 2026: Vincent Black Shadow takes Barry Sheene Trophy honours
September 20, 2026 Goodwood, West Sussex Le Mans start for the second leg of the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy at the Goodwood Revival. Tom Booth-Amos and Ben Kingham rode their 1954…
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2026 Goodwood Revival. Replay the weekend's action
Re-watch the 2026 Goodwood Revival live stream here with action from the historic racing extravaganza
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Maserati vs Ferrari: Modena's oldest rivalry returns at Goodwood Revival
Nearly a century after Maserati first raced Ferrari for supremacy in Modena, the 2026 Goodwood Revival brings back the fight on track
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Simon de Burton’s auction picks: from a Honda RC30 to a Bugatti Type 35C
1993 Porsche 911 RSR ‘Strassenversion’ Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £3.49m Judging values accurately hasn’t been easy in recent years, so the consignor of this 911 RSR took a gamble buying…
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John Watson returns to the McLaren MP4/1, 45 years after Silverstone victory
Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John Watson’s 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with McLaren Heritage test driver Rob…
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McLaren's secret F1 wind tunnel tests: how MP4/1 took shape alongside Sting Ray torpedo
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take shape. The McLaren MP4 would famously laminate a new technology…
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