‘if you don’t have great racing, you don’t have anything’

A fresh impetus behind grand prix racing breaks down the barriers. Matt James looks back

It was a decade of British success across a turbulent landscape. Matt James picks out some highlights

One minute we were rubbing in the sun cream, the next hunkering under brollies as the good old UK weather kept the British Touring Car Championship guessing at bucolic Oulton Park. The series’ annual

Britain topped the world in rallying and in Formula 1, and it was a period of boom and bust across the motorsport world.

Fairy tales can come true, and the UK experienced a purple patch early on in the century with two home-grown grand prix title winners.

IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN – especially in Formula 1. While British teams, draped in the deepest of verdant hues, arguably ruled the roost in the early 1960s, the glory days of British Racing Green wer