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30 years ago, Colin McRae flew, drifted and slid his way from WRC frontrunner to sporting megastar

The anecdote has thus far been delivered by detour and digression. Wynne Mitchell is doubled up in mirth as he recounts a story surrounding Tony Pond’s third-place finish on the 1985 RAC Rally of Grea

America’s greatest racing driver? It’s subjective and depends entirely on your perspective. But what we can state for certain is, in terms of worldwide fame, stature, personality, longevity of career

He spent the best part of 30 years trying to make racing cars go faster, then the next quarter of a century striving to make them safer. But Peter Wright, who died in November aged 79, was an understa

Some of motorsport’s most enduring figures can’t resist the urge to keep racing. Matt James finds out why

By tradition, the World Rally Championship should have been decided in a thick soup of mud and mist, the sport’s top stars slithering through treacherous British forest roads on a good old Rally GB wi