The joyof driving

Some of motorsport’s most enduring figures can’t resist the urge to keep racing. Matt James finds out why

Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai

We often have big-name speakers at Autocar’s Great Women and Drivers of Change events, both intended to promote the automotive industry and recognise thriving careers within it, but sometimes it’s the

It’s not long after Paul Aron, Alpine’s Formula 1 reserve driver, arrives in the gym at the team’s Enstone factory that I realise I’m in trouble. “What’s the record?” he asks as the first exercise is

I wonder which stage industry boffins think we’re in now. Two short years ago, the bosses of McLaren Applied (now an independent engineering firm, Motion Applied) reckoned electric car development wou

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar