Some of you may have seen that Goodwood is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Group C era at the Festival of Speed this year (June 29-July 1). What many…
Cast your mind back 12 short years to the turn of the century. You may remember the country in general and hauliers in particular got themselves into something of a…
British MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow spent last season learning how to ride a MotoGP bike and being awestruck by MotoGP’s greatest talents. Here’s what he thinks of Stoner, Lorenzo and…
Roush Fenway Ford team-mates Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle controlled the final 100 miles of this year’s Daytona 500 on Monday night after a day and a half of rain…
“Everyone is more or less mad on one point”. These words of Rudyard Kipling come to mind when I see the sport of Grand Prix racing fumbling over the rights…
One of many displacement activities motoring journalists like to dress up as work is idly leafing through the classifieds gazing wistfully at all the second-hand cars they can’t afford: this…
NASCAR’s enfant terrible Kyle Busch scored a spectacular win in the 200-mile Budweiser Shootout last Saturday night. The non-points sprint race kicks off NASCAR’s 38-race season and resulted in a remarkable…
Great to see the two grandest men of bike racing inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame this week, taking their place alongside Fangio, Senna and the rest. John…
Every year, the Car of the Year jury gets together with all the shortlisted cars to put them through their paces. Actually that’s not entirely true. Of the 59 jurors,…
Truth be known, last month’s Rolex 24 Hours was a mere warm-up for the big show, which arrives in Daytona at the end of this week. By mid-week more than…
It has taken a while coming, but there is increasing recognition among major car manufacturers in the world that if you are to design a car with a truly outstanding…
He may be largely unrecognised in his home country, but Justin Wilson is one of the UK’s finest racing drivers. At Daytona the weekend before last he showed his stuff…
About this time of year in 2007 I watched Casey Stoner and his wife Adriana walk out of the back of the pits at Sepang, get into their hire car…
“Racing’s comin’ at ya” proclaimed the headline on the front page of the Daytona Beach News-Journal as I made my jet-lagged journey to work last Friday morning. “Let’s go racin’”…
News that Land Rover is considering building the new Defender in India has already been greeted with some fairly predictable howls of outrage from those thinking that a Defender not…
What a pleasure it was to watch Mike Shank’s team run a faultless race to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona. It was the first major win for Shank’s burgeoning…
