The art of the all-rounder: how driving in different categories makes better racers
When GT specialist Nicky Catsburg got the chance to drive for Lada in the World Touring Car Championship back in 2015, he received plenty of advice not to do it.…
Competition breeds success. It’s a statement that rings true throughout racing history. And perhaps at no moment was it more relevant than in Germany during the late 1980s. That was…
A round of the European Touring Car Challenge at Mallory Park? The 1960s were ripe with possibilities that would nowadays be unthinkable, as these photos from Chris Mitchell confirm
Back in February, just before our world turned upside down, Motor Sport headed to Paris for the launch of Pure ETCR, an all-new electric touring car series that looked set…
It wasn’t the rasp of internal combustion that first marked this out as a day unlike any other in the recent past, nor that competing cars had three dimensions. Rather,…
Motor racing has a way of changing perceptions. Success on the track can rejuvenate the appeal of even the most humdrum of models. Racing did exactly this for the Alfa Romeo…
Did we hear that correctly? Colin Turkington has just phoned in his apologies. He is running slightly late because he is bringing a car on a trailer and loading it…
Audi's announcement that it will leave DTM at the end of the year has put the series' survival into doubt, with BMW left as the only factory outfit - for now. Can it recover?
Andy Rouse managed to combine racing and business to great success, taking four BSCC titles in 1975, ’83, ’84 and ’85 and breaking records along the way. Below the headline…
He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car Championship in the mid-1990s, was at the helm of the…
Audi announces its withdrawal from DTM at the end of the 2020 season, leaving only BMW confirmed for 2021
Plans have been revealed for the world’s first multi-brand, all-electric touring car racing series that, organisers say, will differentiate itself from Formula E by promoting performance over efficiency to change…
Robert Kubica will race in the DTM championship this year, after confirming a deal with the French ART Grand Prix team to run a BMW M4. The 35-year-old has been…
The Winkelhock family has tried many branches of the sport. The legacy began with Manfred Winkelhock – a veteran of 56 grands prix – who was killed during an accident…
Roberto Ravaglia collects touring car titles like Rupert Murdoch does media outlets. In the second half of the 1980s the Venetian was the undisputed saloon car king, winning consecutive European,…