A few days before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix I asked someone at Mercedes-Benz which one of its drivers the team most wanted to win the world championship. “Lewis” came…

What are the chances of two car manufacturers based in the same city launching cars with the same name, which are direct rivals, some 6000 miles away from said city,…

Well at last someone has put some figures to a situation we’ve known has existed for years, namely that car manufacturers have been actively manipulating mandatory EU tests to determine…

For the first time since it took a controlling interest in 1969, Fiat and Ferrari will effectively become different companies once more by this time next year. As part of…

How big a story would it be were it to become clear that Audi was going to bin both its WEC and DTM programmes and take part in Formula 1…

How betrayed should those of us who love thoroughbred sports cars feel when their manufacturers decide to slap their names on the sides of two-tonne SUVs? On one level it…

I’d like to thank the hosts, the track, the gods and whatever other forces contrived to make the inaugural Russian Grand Prix one of the most tedious motor racing spectacles I have…

Like me you may be watching with ever increasing astonishment as classic car prices climb through the roof, up through the cloud base and into the stratosphere. I wrote a few…

The Spa Six Hours. Sounds glamorous doesn’t it? Sounds like it should be stock full of low slung slices of exotica staffed by snake-hipped professional drivers who’ve just passed their…

If you are reading this on Wednesday and happen to have a glass in your hand, please raise it to Sir Stirling Moss on the occasion of his 85th birthday. He is,…

The departure of Luca Cordero di Montezemolo from Ferrari has been rumoured for weeks. Today those rumours became fact. In a statement Ferrari’s parent company Fiat announced that the man…

After last (Monday) night, when we get to drive it, the new Jaguar XE had better be good. In more than 25 years attending car unveilings, I’ve never seen anything quite like…