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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…
For reasons that will become apparent, this was the most challenging month of my life. We all know motor sport blends sound and spectacle, but it can also be a…
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…
Jules Bianchi lost his life five years ago, following a crash at the 2014 Japanese GP. His Marussia colleagues remember a talent that seemed destined for success
Forty-five years ago today, a privately funded Formula 1 team notched up its only grand prix victory by the Dutch coast. We look back at James Hunt's winning drive with its patron, Lord Hesketh
The beginning of the year brought the promise of a new season, with new events and fresh competition. But motor racing awoke from hibernation to the looming threat of the…
He wasn’t a flamboyant team principal in the manner of Flavio Briatore, nor a high flyer in the mould of Ron Dennis. Far from it. Roger Cowman, who has died…
Silverstone, March 1984. At that time the former Wellington bomber base was still the British Grand Prix’s alternate home and its layout had not greatly changed in 35 years. Yes,…