Brushes with brilliance

From an apprenticeship with one of France’s most famous Ferrari specialists to recent success as an automotive artist, Jean-Yves Tabourot’s journey has involved some spectacular machinery and dramatic

‘I NEVER SET out to be a car designer – I just sort of became one,’ says Frank Stephenson. It’s an odd admission from the man who penned iconic cars such as the McLaren P1, BMW’s first Mini and the Ma

Design is not a democracy.” Such a bold statement, wonderfully out of tune with modern group-think, could only apply to a car as radical as the Lotus Esprit. These words were only uttered today by Gio

Here is a bold claim with which to kick off an interview/profile: no one has ever devoted to motor sport so great a proportion of such a long working life as has Neil Oatley. He is a McLaren stalwart,

Difficult, changeable conditions hit Peter Auto’s Spa-Classic from 23-25 May in Belgium, so perhaps it wasn’t a great surprise that the experienced Oliver Bryant took victory in the wet, all-Porsche 9

It says a lot about the no-holds-barred François Delecour that even Colin McRae once described him as “probably the craziest guy I know” (Delecour’s long-time Peugeot team-mate Gilles Panizzi was desc