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SIR, So Spa-Francorchamps fell victim to the Belgian government's decision to ban tobacco advertising. (At the moment of writing, it's…
SIR, So Spa-Francorchamps fell victim to the Belgian government's decision to ban tobacco advertising. (At the moment of writing, it's…
Sir, Recent publicity regarding the proposed development of a Mercedes-Benz Heritage and Technology Centre at Brooklands has understandably prompted a…
The 2003 Formula One season began on November 26, 2002 — not racing, you understand, but the endless grind of…
When Niki Lauda was recently sacked by Jaguar Racing, he joined a long list of great drivers who, for whatever…
The jury: Bill Boddy, Adam Cooper, Gordon Cruickshank, John Davenport, Andrew Frankel, Paul Fearnley, Alan Henry, Mark Hughes, Preston Lerner,…
Power without glory It had enough grunt to push a 164 saloon beyong 200MPH — And scare the life out…
Hailed as the first post-war road race circuit, this army facility offered highspeed spectacle - in a high risk pakage.…
By his own admission, Jackie Oliver was not a great grand prix driver, but at Brands Hatch in 1968 he…
Money was so tight that driver Chris Craft and team manager Keith Greene had to take a Page & Moy…
From the very opening meeting in 1907, women competed at the surrey track. While some races were ladies-only, often they…
When Phil Hill's Cooper crashed and burnt to a crisp in the 1964 Austrian Grand Prix, Peter Miller was on…
BRM was at fours and fives in 1972 - Cars per GP, that is - Yet none of its drivers…
Alan Mertens' first Glamer Indycar design won the worlds biggest race at its first attempt. Set up for life then?…
Soundly beaten by scuderia Ferrari in the 1958 world sportscar championship, Aston Martin was supposed to be concentrating on its…
By Reinhard Klein ISBN 3-927458-02-3 Published by Verlag Reinhard Klein, £36.10 inc p&p Reinhard Klein is rallying's best photographer, and…
By Martin Holmes ISBN 0-9521639-9-3 Published by Martin Holmes Rallying, £19.95 Once, when sharing a car with the author of…
Edited by Alan Henry ISBN 1-903135-10-9 Published by Hazleton, £35.00 It's that time of year again when we wonder who…
By Art Eevans (ISBN 0-9705073-1-3) Published by Photo Data Research LLC, $65.00 If there is an obvious flaw with this…
By L J K Setright ISBN 0-9542585-0-9 Published byPalawan Press, £75.00 (£195 hardback) RUussian constructivism, Sumerian traffic problems and the…
By Steve Newbury ISBN 1-85894-181-4 Published by Layzell, £25.00 There are only three or four outrageous mock-ups per motor show,…
The Dijon-Prenois circuit in France will forever be linked with the outrageous contest between Gilles Villeneuve and René Arnoux in the 1979 French Grand Prix. Those glory days for Dijon…
Marc Márquez rewrote the history books this year, with big smears of smoking, molten rubber on the asphalt First, to the stats, to put things in perspective. Yesterday Marc Márquez…
Think of all the great drivers who drove all those great Ferrari prototypes and GTs that illuminated its golden age of sports car racing. Who was the best remains open…
There’s no other word to describe working at the Red Bull Ring this weekend than weird. Really, really weird. But weird is very much necessary. In Melbourne, I was pretty…