Lion kings

‘WHERE’S YOUSUF?’ THE NIGHT IS DRAWING IN, AND SO IS the weather. Rain is blowing sideways across the North York Moors and lashing the White Horse Inn’s windowpanes as we assemble on the eve of this p

It has been a few years since we deviated from our usual route from Portsmouth to Caen for the Reader Run to the Le Mans Classic, but as we sailed into the quiet port of St-Malo, memories were jogged

THE TURBOCHARGED engine first triumphed at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1976, and has done most of the winning at the French enduro since. Only eight victories have gone to normally aspirated powerplants o

IF YOU WANTED TO WIN A WORLD TITLE IN THE 2010s it helped immensely if your name was Seb. Between Vettel, Loeb and Ogier, no fewer than 13 drivers’ championships were claimed across Formula 1 and the

At first it’s hard to imagine a 12-year-old Thierry Boutsen sneaking the keys to his mother’s Fiat 600 for a joyride, such is the Belgian’s calm, pragmatic demeanour. With an earnest smile and a lithe

What’s the price of indifference? In the case of TWR’s Tom Walkinshaw, it was the development of an alternative to Jaguar’s XJ220, the prototype of which he’d just surveyed at the 1988 British Motor S