The son of a railway engineer, the recently departed Paul Grist combined an acting career with a love of vintage cars before he started a top restoration firm. Across 87 years his varied life included

The excellent article on Leyton House F1 [The team that fired Adrian Newey, March] brought back memories. I was their insurance broker at the time along with many other F1 teams and their principals.

‘Flash Alf’ Martin was a welder, but not just any welder. He was a brilliant welder. He worked for the Rubery Owen Group, which owned British Racing Motors, the BRM Formula 1 team. In its factory at B

On February 5, 1966, Roger Penske made his official debut as an entrant or racing team owner, fielding a Chevrolet Corvette L88 in the year when Daytona International Speedway’s endurance race was ext

Colombian climber Julián Arredondo was never one to do anything by halves: ‘I was mixing drugs with alcohol and women. I took a little bit of everything, but it never filled this deep emptiness I had

The From the Archives section of Motor Sport – the magazine that my family owned for many years – is always one of the first pages I turn to but the February issue regarding Denis Jenkinson’s famous 1