Paul cowland

It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

Let’s get one thing straight (or not): loving power oversteer doesn’t make you good at it. In fact, what makes this special cornering condition so great is knowing it’s something you will only sometim

Dave Partridge bought his Peugeot 106 1.3 Rallye to compete in motorsport events – and then the rules were changed. “I bought it 14 years ago for £450 with the aim of going sprinting and hillclimbing

Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai

RACING RADIO-CONTROLLED CARS IS an underrated first chapter in a life built around cars. Speak to many racers or engineers and the seeds of their passion were sewn in karting, season upon season of co

Bit of trouble with the Mini. Nothing serious, just inconvenient. Our 65,000-mile, 69-plate Cooper S was about 3000 miles short of its next major service when a warning popped up to announce that its