Part 8 trackday driving

A Nissan Skyline Turbo Super Silhouette racer barrels into the first corner at a hair under full throttle, its comically outsized rear end just beginning to spin out wide as its super-sticky slick tyr

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

WE’RE REALLY MOTORING NOW, ON THE fastest part of the track approaching a hairpin turn. Above the sound of the Aston DB12’s howling V12, my passenger, Pascal, shouts: ‘Don’t brake, let the car do it!’

Becoming a racing driver can seem like a daunting task, but the process of obtaining your first race licence is probably simpler than you think.

MANY people consider the humble hot hatch to be a jack of all trades. Something that can do the school run or hop to the shops, before transforming into a scintillating sports car the moment the road

It’s a consequence of being a nerdy petrolhead that, despite most of us living thousands of miles away from northern Scandinavia, we’re familiar with the strange names of Arvidsjaur, Arjeplog and Rova