Exciting new sports car, meet exciting new race track. Matthew Franey ventures north in the Ford Puma to see the transformation at Croft Have you ever driven a car so…

The bulging wheel-arches are what makes the Lister-Jaguar visually unforgettable but, as Matthew Franey discovered at Goodwood, that's nothing compared to what it's like to drive. If we have a…

It was a country on the verge of a revolution, in need of a hero. Three years had passed since the death of Eva Peron and an uneasy nation watched…

This Jaguar D-Type raced just once, at Le Mans in 1955, and won the most tragic event in our sport's history. Matthew Franey remembers how it was then and discovers…

As soon as I'd posed the question I felt a bit mean. After all we had just spent the best part of an entire Silverstone test day abusing the splendidly…

If the future for front-engined cars in Grand Prix racing was bleak at the beginning of the 1960s, then the writing was firmly on the wall for sportscars as well.…

Is there anything a nineties touring car can learn from a sixties saloon car? After a day battling with a Lotus Cortina and a Ford Mondeo, Matthew Franey thinks there…

The lid was lifted on the worst kept secret in Formula One last month when Jaguar chairman Dr Wolfgang Reitzle announced that the recently purchased Stewart Grand Prix team would…

For reasons I will never quite understand, Enzo Ferrari, a man with an extraordinary passion for motor racing had a distinct lack of sentiment when it came to his racing…

BMW'S potent M3 SMG coupe has borrowed technology from the racetrack to let you sample the benefits of a sequential transmission. But, as Matthew Franey found out, it takes some…

Murray Walker spent the greater part of his entire career with just one ambition. "I wanted to be in the same room as Enzo Ferrari. It didn't matter if he…

The car on the left never won a race but its arrival in F1 changed the face of the spor forever. Matthew Franey samples a piece of Grand Prix history…