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You become detached from reality quite quickly at an event such as the Supercar Driver Secret Meet, which took place at Silverstone on 17 June. Lamborghini Murciélago? Yawn. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren?

As Bruce McLaren drove his Mercedes to Goodwood that fateful June day in 1970 he will have passed wheat fields of golden promise not quite ready for harvest. His own team, founded four years earlier,

I TEND TO sort emails like someone ripping defective products off a conveyer belt at blur speed. If it’s selling, yelling or not compelling, it’s instantly deleted. ‘Subject line: Ferraris to Le Mans’

Producing a large-format and premium-priced book about a single car is never an easy task, however meritorious the subject. Porter Press has plenty of experience with this genre, however, and the team

Ah, 1985: heart of the decade of Cold War superpowers and Dayglo socks. The year of Marty McFly and Back to the Future – “You made a time machine – out of a DeLorean?” Dodgy Sylvester Stallone action

M y life is really great at the moment and I seem to spend a huge amount of time thinking back to the times when my main mission seemed to be to f*ck it all up. Looking back to driving 180 miles per h