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Designers who inspire
During my time at Williams I have been privileged to compete against a number of designers whose work I have…
During my time at Williams I have been privileged to compete against a number of designers whose work I have…
It is part of motor racing folklore that Australian World Champion Alan Jones had little time for FIA stewards, or…
The crash that claimed Marco Simoncelli’s life at October’s Malaysian motorcycle GP was very similar to the accident that killed Shoya Tomizawa during last…
There have been plenty of big accidents over the past 10 years in Indycar races on high-banked oval tracks. Davey…
Sir, As the restorer of the ‘Pink Pig’ for Porsche, I would like to correct one thing regarding the controversy…
Sir, The Porsche 917 ‘Pink Pig’ story was fun, but there’s a bit more to it… As your story states,…
Sir, The December issue brought back both sad and good memories. When we ran our Lotus 47 in the 1968…
Sir, Thumbing through the December issue of your fine magazine, I came across Doug Nye’s article on Dr Tony Goodwin’s…
Sir, Concerning Rob Widdows’ intriguing account of the Porsche ‘Pink Pig’, I found it disappointing that Klaus Bischof denies the…
Sir, Douglas Kent (Letters, November) suggests Piero Taruffi’s Tarf twin-boom record car was based on similar theories to Smokey Yunick’s…
Sir, Just a quick thank you from the USA for the terrific recent website podcasts. How wonderful it was to…
I read with interest in Doug Nye’s column that Dr Tony Goodwin is about to publish his autobiography. I am…
Sir, It was good to be reminded of the life and times of the great Jo Siffert by Michael Cotton…
Sir, Your editorial in the November issue rightly gives credit to the Goodwood Revival meeting. However, your comment that you…
Sir, Having attended the IndyCar race at Las Vegas in anticipation of a great weekend, it turned into one of…
Sir, Stephen Campbell is not the only person to be irritated by the anachronistic hippies at the Goodwood Revival (Letters,…
That’s how much time has passed since Johnny Herbert last raced an Audi R8 sports prototype – so how would…
The risk of dusting off this irreplaceable Le Mans winner for a 20th anniversary test run terrified the men at…
Want to know what the Mazda sounds like? Just ask its Le Mans-winning pilot Johnny Herbert Mazda might be protective…
In the business world, management is all. The best managers earn the biggest salaries; companies with good profit growth are…
You’ve got to hand it to Jorge Lorenzo. During 2012 he was the rock in a rough sea. This has been a stormy year of dizzying change in MotoGP: the…
Bruce McLaren shouldn’t have been there. Masten Gregory should. Cooper team leader Jack Brabham reckoned the latter the most fearless man he met. Yet even the gung-ho ‘Kansas City Flash’…
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…
Legendary car designer Gordon Murray is planning to return to Le Mans with his new supercar – almost 25 years after his most famous creation, the McLaren F1, triumphed in…