1981 San Marino at Imola by Miguel Angel Guerra After two and a bit years in European Formula Two, how…

"I never really had a childhood hero, and the guy who became my hero was younger than me! I thought…

Stirling Moss More than 40 years on from his retirement from racing, the name Stirling Moss still resonates across the…

It’s the middle of the night and you’re pulling over 200mph. Are you up to it? The long-distance men were…

As slender and frail as his beautiful record car, Frank Lockhart had an innate, mysterious engineering sense. He was convinced…

Rial: 1988 Detriot Grand Prix It wasn’t so long ago that a one-car team crewed by a handful of blokes…

Ligier’s canny use of ground effect allowed it to get the jump on the establishment in 1979, but only for…

Lotus 63 4WD worked at Indianapolis, so it had to be good news for F1, right? Wrong. John Miles, GP…

Races for pure road cars predate the more famous Le Mans and Spa 24-hour endurance events, as Bill Boddy reminds…

Bugatti was a fading GP force by the mid-1930s, but its Le Mans victories were still ahead of it. Phil…

Carlos Sainz: 1998 RAC Rally It doesn’t get much tougher than to be just yards from a world championship –…

Sicily’s Targa Florio had a considerably faster, more mountainous cousin over on the mainland. Paul Fearnley scales the Futa Pass…

The December editorial about the extreme impression the 1937 and 1938 Donington GPs made, including on the Editor's grandfather, recalls…

Matthew Freddenberg’s Negative Gravity is the story of Miss Beatrice Shilling, who raced her Norton to Gold Star speeds at…

Not all that long ago I recalled Jenks' illegal 1957 Christmas Day drive on public roads in a Formula Two…

One of the rewarding aspects of trying to answer the shoals of readers' queries I receive is learning of historic…

I feel I may have been a bit harsh in describing recently how cramped the back seat of a 'Chain…

In a letter from Dr John Mills from Ecuador, I hear of two more surviving vintage cars. Mills discovered Motor…

Formula One Racing for Dummies By Jonathan Noble and Mark Hughes ISBN 0764570153 Published by Wiley, £14.99 Don’t be put…