70 years in the making

Organised chaos and hot stress. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Tour de France. Then I worry if I will have enough shirts to last over four weeks on the road covering fir

1973 LE MANS 24 HOURS June 9-10, Le Mans, France CHEVROLET CORVETTE C3 1st in class When in 1971 the Le Mans organisers rescinded its ban on female drivers – in place since Annie Bousquet’s fatal cras

Canada’s first ever road race winner lives out ‘dream come true’, writes Tom Davidson

On 22nd November 1954, a 16-year-old cyclist from Harworth, Yorkshire, wrote a letter to Charles Pélissier, a great of French cycling and multiple Tour stage winner. The ambitious young rider was seek

In the mid-1980s, despite regularly making nuisances of ourselves at our local bike shop, my girlfriend Josie and I were determined to resist all attempts to turn us into racing cyclists. While happy

Previous pages, top right: ‘The whole of Alto de El Morredero on Stage 17 was a barren, blackened landscape as far as the eye could see. Spain had had some of its worst ever wildfires there about a mo