Lola racing achievements

The idea of a racing car competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans emblazoned with the Harrods department store livery on its flanks sounds somehow incongruous. Just as unlikely back in 1995 was the notion

Few racing cars divide opinion like the Audi R8. Some regard the German manufacturer’s LMP prototype as the all-time great to which its record attests. Others have labelled it a boring winning machine

A month or so ago, a 50th anniversary went unnoticed by most followers of Formula One statistics. In the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, Italian Lella Lombardi became the first, and so far the only, woman to

1922 RLTF ● HIT Alfa was race first, road second. In the hands of Ugo Sivocci, the lightened, 6cyl RLTF gave AR its first big international race victory, taking the chequered flag in the 1923 Targa Fl

The junior single-seater championship started strong and got even stronger. Graham Keilloh tells its 300-race story

THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY SAW GRAND PRIX racing reach a new zenith in the ’90s. Active suspension – first seen on a Lotus as early as 1981 – was perfected. Paddleshift transmissions – a late-’80s innova