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Harvey Postlethwaite
Sir, It is a grey Saturday morning in April 1968. A small group gather outside the tower at Castle Combe…
Sir, It is a grey Saturday morning in April 1968. A small group gather outside the tower at Castle Combe…
Sir, Following the success of my Auto Union Album, Neil Corner has asked me to prepare a similar book of…
Sir, I enjoyed the Brabham stories in your May issue, but am still reeling from your choice of cover photograph.…
Sir, I was interested to read your appraisal of Mike Parkes in the May edition. It may not be generally…
Sir, I was fascinated to read the excellent BRM story in your 75th Anniversary Issue. In 1962 I bought the…
"Hold this for a second", said Roy Salvadori, handing me a glass of beer. "No, on second thoughts perhaps you'd…
Remember the film 'Le Mans'? Jonathan Williams does: he was the man hired to drive the camera car, Steve McQueen's…
The final Le Mans 24 Hours of the millennium is also the hardest race to call for some time. With…
"I think it's going to be a good Le Mans," says Martin Brundle,"and it's going to be very intense. Toyota…
An engineer's mind, Lancaster pilot's backbone and quick wits made FRW 'Lofty' England a truly great team leader, says Robert…
One of the finest line-ups of cars and drivers ever heads for Goodwood House this June. Marcus Pye is your…
Looking back, it was a race to mark the end of an era, although there was nothing to suggest it…
In 1971, Emerson Fittipaldi was a young, enthusiastic driver. But that did not stop the tubrine-powered Lotus 56B scaring him…
When Ford dropped a rorty competition engine into a compact family car called Escort, it created a new breed of…
Even recent anti-race protests in Australia pale beside the hysteria after the 1903 Paris-Madrid, which ended road-racing for many years.…
This is the actual Jaguar XJR-9 that won Le Mans in 1988, the greatest sports car victory of the modern…
This Jaguar D-Type raced just once, at Le Mans in 1955, and won the most tragic event in our sport's…
Few marques can boast such a rich and emotive history as Aston Martin. From Lionel Martin's first hillclimber of 1914,…
Frank Lockhart shot to fame aged 24, becoming the youngest winner of the Indy 500. Two years later, he died…
It took seven years for carbon brake discs to make their mark. Now F1 would not be without them. Keith…
135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 6 Just as the Coventry Climax racing effort was fading in the mid-1960s, a new contender was waiting in…
Five-day French event, the Tour Auto Optic 2000, is paying homage to vanished English makes and entries include a Le Mans-winner and a car driven by Peter Collins This year's Tour Auto Optic 2000…
Max Verstappen already has a wealth of experience to draw on at just 24 and at the current rate will be amongst the likes of Prost and Senna before hitting 30
Which of this year's 22 grands prix stands out as the best? Jolyon Palmer and Jack Nicholls join Chris Medland to pick the race that combined drama, excitement and overtaking