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HE WAS A man who was going places, often several places at once. Few racing drivers jousted with jeopardy with such regularity as Willy Mairesse. He was fast and he was committed but all too often he

Peter Strain Y es, I’m six months late, ...

If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable of self-aggrandisement. The second is that th

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

The British race fans first got to know all about Ayrton Senna da Silva through his exploits on the national Formula Ford scene 45 years ago. Matt James explores his initial racing steps

Every lover of late 20th-century rock will have been saddened by the death of Chris Rea. He sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, with massive hits such as Fool (If You Think It’s Over) and Driv