On the road, October 2020: mists, mellow fruitfulness & torrential rain
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…
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…
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…
While motor racing might be wrapping up for 2019, there are a few more dates on the calendar and paddock breakfasts to be had for Simon Arron Photo: Simon Arron…
Autumn added extra challenges to October's national racing calendar, with a mud-bath at Oulton Park, slippery conditions at the Brands Hatch season finale, and a deluge of horse chestnuts for Thundersport…
Simon Arron takes in the raw and visceral sights of drag racing at Santa Pod, the historic celebration that is the Goodwood Revival and another breakfast at Mallory Park in…
VSCC at Prescott, HSCC at Croft, British GT at Brands Hatch, motorcycle racing at Cadwell or mix and match? DTM at Brands Hatch, bikes at Mallory or trucks at Donington?…
Simon Arron visits two traditional venues and relishes a competitive secret that is no longer well kept William Nuthall kicks up some grass in the Cooper T53 at Chateau Impney All…
On the road in June: Simon Arron explores a British racing summer’s boundless options, including history in Hampshire, America in England and the unbridled joy of a day at Shelsley…
Simon Arron turns back the clock while traipsing around the land with cameras and digital notebook Roger Bolliger's 1971 SCCA Pontiac Trans-Am, Brands Hatch Youngtimer Touring Car Championship, May 27 All…
The UK racing season gets fully into its stride. Simon Arron reports on a world far removed from Formula 1 Goodwood Members’ Meeting, British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch……
From bikes at Brands Hatch to an unexpected nugget about Max Verstappen’s unbridled confidence… at the age of 15 All photographs: Simon Arron One is seldom spoilt for choice at…
It has been an unusually quiet month for Simon Arron, but that will soon change. Here are a few things he has pencilled into a somewhat fluid diary… All photographs:…
The first instalment in Simon Arron's 'on the road' series, tracking Motor Sport’s features editor as he pursues his lifelong passion All photographs: Simon Arron In essence this is a…
Motor Sport’s features editor Simon Arron didn’t travel quite as widely as usual in 2018, but that still translated as attendance at about 50 events (and probably almost as many…