I don’t want it to be hurtful to anyone,” says Joann Villeneuve in the opening moments of the new feature-length documentary on her husband Gilles and his friend, team-mate and eventual…
So is it a new firm, this Audi lot? Or is it a DKW? What has Auto Union got to do with it? That was the branding muddle Audi had…
I’m glad I’m not a judge. Paul Griffin, a city lawyer as well as a historic racer, hangs his book round a number of high-profile car disputes: it’s obvious that…
They’re among the ugliest cars ever to compete at Le Mans but they appear here in one of the most beautiful books I’ve seen. Not only is it vast but…
Paddock rumours of skulduggery from mild cheating to murder have always been popular gossip, but Crispian Besley has decided to pin down a bookful of those which have the evidence…
One of my treasured books as a young lad was The Boys’ Book of Motors (it’s still on the shelf behind me). As well as the various four-wheeled excitements I…
Back in a time when the ageing 328 and the flashy Testarossa were the best that Ferrari had to offer, and before the company suddenly remembered that you could still…
Forty years of Group C? It’s the anniversary that just keeps on giving. If the heavyweight triple-volume celebration of works Porsche 962s reviewed in this space last month, Ultimate Works…
First, a declaration. It was Andrew Marriott who got me started in the writing racket almost 60 years ago by recruiting me as a freelancer at Motoring News. We shared…
Everyone wants to drive the ’Ring – it’s implicit in the membership badge of the Petrolhead Club. We also all know that it’s almost impossible to learn all of it,…
Remember Drake Olson? Not sure we did. Briefly a rising star in IMSA, Olson made a single start in a works Rothmans Porsche 962, sharing No3 (chassis 002) with Vern…
They say history is another country, and MotoGP in the early 1970s was so different to its modern-day counterpart to be barely recognisable
Whether you want to toy around with the latest F1 cars or race as an F2 driver, F1 22 for PlayStation, Xbox and Windows has plenty to offer. With US…
Must remember not to use the adjective ‘definitive’ in this review, because that’s just what I thought Simon Moore’s previous books would turn out to be, only he keeps demonstrating…
Ultimate Works Porsche 962, a new book of unprecedented depth and detail on the legendary Le Mans car, is set to be released at Hexagon Classics
I’m glad I can open this review with the Darl’mat versions of the Peugeots which raced successfully at Le Mans and elsewhere in the 1930s, otherwise a book about a…