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Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb…

Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb…
Despite laughable budgets and two serious shunts, John Watson finally got the F1 chance he deserved. Paul Fearnley retraces the…
15 minutes of fame Safir: 1975 British GP F3 race Eleven different chassis competed in British F3 in 1975, but one…
The Safari was the world's most photogenic event; Reinhard Klein is rallying's greatest photgrapher. This is a selection of stunning images…
Three decades after being sold as just another lot in a liquidation sale, this incredible GT racer has been unearthed. Paul Fearnley tells…
The Brighton Run for veteran cars, on November 2, was as usual tremendously successful, as one of the world's most important…
I knew Derek Buckler quite well. A rather serious chap, and why not, when you are selling kit-car parts and complete…
The present owner of the low-chassis S-type 4.5-litre Invicta which the late Bugatti exponent Lindsay Eccles owned until 1947, and…
After a long wait I have the true story about when John Duff, driving one of the pre-war 22.5-litre chain-drive…
Nigel Orlebar, who died aged 87 in September, joined the VSCC in 1936. His mother had competed in pre-WWI hillclimbs in…
Journalists are told not to reveal their news sources, which in politics has led to tragic results. I wonder who in…
My recent item about a Bamford & Martin Aston Martin brought encouraging news of these cars. Andy Bell of Ecurie Bertelli…
Ronnie Peterson: Formula One Super Swede By Johnny Tipler ISBN 1 902351 07 X Published by Coterie Press Ltd, £34.95 If…
The Goodwood gardeners have been busy. Ahead of next weekend’s new event at the famous old race track in Sussex they planted more than 300,000 daffodils. And very pretty they…
Monaco is up there with Spa, Le Mans and the Nürburgring — if you're driving the grand prix circuit, writes Andrew Frankel Andrew Frankel at the wheel of a 1952 Jaguar C-type in…
Highlights from around the world
An everyday Ferrari? This one is getting perilously close… There is something strangely old fashioned about the Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. Yes, beneath the skin it packs the sort of bleeding-edge technology…