Dakar classic highlights

If you go down in the woods today…you’re sure of a big surprise. Namely, a group of adrenalin-seeking drivers speeding down tight forest tracks in powerful rally cars. It takes grit, endurance and upper body strength to be a professional in the World Rally Championship.

The Builth Wells showground echoed to glorious sounds of a rallying history lesson over the weekend.

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

Porsche, or rather the factory team, had stayed away from the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1984. A late change in the rules resulted in the withdrawal of its Rothmans-sponsored 956s from the big one in June. Y

Excited and apprehensive, I’m driving my Renault 5 long-termer 190 miles from home to Watergate Bay, Cornwall, for the local car club’s annual sprint. For two days a year, they close the road between

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w