This month’s round-up of highlights from national and club events poses the big question: when did special saloons last race on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit?   The Classic…

Muscle cars, missiles, an alternative to the British Grand Prix… and plenty more besides

Another month, another six events: more than half a century of watching motor racing seems not to have diluted its allure for Simon Arron

Eight days at six events during the course of four weeks. For some people, that’s the very definition of a step towards normality

National motor sport will take another step into the future this year, when electric cars are admitted to the British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy to race on equal terms…

Welcome to a fusion of thermal underwear, woolly hats, rainproof jackets, Gore-Tex boots, soup flasks and M&S pork pies… 5 Nations British Rallycross Championship Lydden Hill, December 5 One of…

British Automobile Racing Club Thruxton, October 31 Another month, another throwback. Remember those televised, end-of-season Thruxton meetings 40-odd years ago, an interlude to National Hunt racing on BBC Grandstand? They…

MG Car Club Oulton Park, October 3 The feeling doesn’t change. Conditions had been miserable from the moment I peeled away from north-west Kent and remained so as I ambled…

There are many good reasons to rewind the clock, but with the 2020 national calendar awash with historic racing, occasionally you have to remind yourself that this really is 2020…

Delayed like everything else by the UK lockdown and associated Covid restrictions, the shortened 2020 British Rallycross Championship bursts into life at the end of this month – and multiple…

It had become almost a reflex. Since stepping away from full-time Formula 1 coverage at the end of 2012, it has been routine to rise at various degrees of early…

Motor sport has lost one of its most distinguished, yet unassuming, characters with the death of Ron Tauranac, aged 95. Born in Britain, Tauranac emigrated to Australia with his family…