Mclaren m26 now that was a car

The McLaren Technology Centre still looks futuristic enough to double for a spaceport on Coruscant, so it’s staggering to reflect on the fact that it’s now 21 years old. Even more staggering given its

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

The Ron Tauranac-designed BT26 had tough acts to follow: its double championship-winning BT19 and BT24 predecessors. The chassis was good, Jochen Rindt often qualifying near the front in 1968 and taki

Ferrari made it three out of three at the Le Mans 24 Hours since its comeback to the top of the sportscar tree. Yet its victory in the World Endurance Championship blue riband this time around was qui

Detroit muscle and European saloon-car racing were once intertwined. However, AMC was rarely represented on track, which made the arrival of the Spirit AMX all the more unexpected. Team Highball built

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