Roller racing, streatham

Being tasked with selecting an image gallery of the Tour de France when you have well over a century of history to play with seemed an impossible job. Tens of thousands of evocative pictures to squeez

The Tour de France is still the only race that counts for ‘them’

In the early 1890s a young Victor Goddet was working at the Vélodrome de l’Est, Paris. Every day a twenty-something rider arrived and every day Goddet studiously checked his pass. One day the rider qu

As the racing season gathers pace in York and gears up for next month’s Ebor spectacular, David Wilson looks at the history of horseracing at Knavesmire

Every year, motorcycling enthusiasts keenly await the summer for the wild Isle of Man TT races. But how many know that there used to be TT races for cars as well? In fact, the Tourist Trophy was conce

The Doc finds a flaw or two in the newly-published regs