’80s motorsport

Forty years after the rallying rocket ships last appeared in Britain, Matt James looks back on the dramatic landscape ahead of that November’s Rally GB

Picture Ford’s Group A homologation specials from the 1980s and it’s no wonder the Sierra RS Cosworth springs to mind, especially given the RS500’s dominance in Touring Car racing. The Escort Mk3 gets

Seldom has there been so much change and upheaval in historic racing as there was across the 2025 season. It was a case of shifting sands as prime promoters came under new ownership, clubs changed foc

Perhaps the defining automotive rivalry of the 21st century came in 2013 with the arrival of a ‘Holy Trinity’ of hybrid hypercars – the Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1 and Porsche 918 Spyder – when thre

It’s such a dramatic ride that movie director Ron Howard made a film about it.

Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in