Grand prix racing’s forgotten year of change

Matt James looks back at the history of one of the most popular championships in the United Kingdom over its seven decades

A REMARKABLE c1904 Opel Darracq is set to make its debut on the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 2 November. Discovered stashed in the basement of a Hanover technical university in 1

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…

Exactly two years ago we previewed the Bonhams sale of a Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3-16 that Niki Lauda drove to second place in the 1984 Nürburgring Race of Champions organised by the marque to celebrate

collins.co.uk RRP £30 From the prolific pen of Autosport columnist Maurice Hamilton comes this compendium of great grand prix cars spanning the history of the world championship. Each one of the selec

Last Sunday, 2 November, marked 130 years since the first appearance of ‘a journal published in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage’ in Britain. The Autocar was created in a peri