Jan Magnussen was famously described by Jackie Stewart - who hired him to race for his fledgling GP team -…

Still one of the hardest rallies, the RAC was once a by-word for toughness. John Davenport tells some first-hand forest…

This Elite could have won Le Mans but became linked with Tragedy. Mike Lawrence examines the mystery, while Sir John…

Phil Llewellin returns to the place where his motor-journalism career began and rediscovers hillclimbing's unique and timeless atmosphere. Accelerating like…

The F5A was the most successful of all Fittipaldi's Grand Prix designs. Andrew Frankel takes to the track in Emerson's…

In the swinging sixties, crime sometimes did pay...for motor racing. Gordon Cruickshank investigates Roy James, the great train robber. Like…

In 1970 and 1971 World Championship Sports Car racing saw the brief but unforgettable era of the Porsche 917 and…

It might have gone down as a Touring Car classic, but the Ford Capri was John Fitzpatrick's nemesis. Adam Cooper…

It started as a French armaments company making rifles for Napoleon III, and became one of the most admired early…

The kind men at Aston Martin have designed a works-built 600bhp Vantage. Gavin Conway staps himself in for the ride…

It is purely an age thing, I suppose, this, peculiar tendency we have to forget whole swathes of people who…

A moment's misjudgement by a colleague tore a certain third Le Mans win from Hans Stuck's grasp, but he recalls…

I read with amusement the editor's comments on how the V16 BRMs lived up to their original failures at the…

The 1998 Penrite Oil Award for outstanding achievement in the historic vehicle world has been awarded to Brooklands Museum for…

Among the wealth of motor racing history it is possible to find interesting side-tracks from the mainstream of events. For…

This traditional event, dating from 1939, this year reverted to the 200-mile navigational road-run on the Saturday for cars less…

How pleasing it is to have stamps on one's letters recalling Britain's successes in the LSR field, with particular reference…

In 1947 the Junior CC, with the Jersey MC/LCC organised the first international road race to be held in Britain…

I was sorry to receive news from South Africa that George Tuck had died aged 89. When I began to…