When ford gets f1 right… and wrong

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

Jenson Button joined the ranks of Goodwood Revival winners when he and Alex Buncombe took the 2009 Formula One champion’s ex-Juan Manuel Fangio Jaguar C-type to a commanding victory in the Freddie Mar

Sustainability wasn’t the buzzword in 1984 that it is today. But there was a growing consensus that Formula 2 couldn’t go on as it was. Added to unpalatable costs, the crushing domination of Ron Taura

Karl Jones was an under-funded single-seater driver in the 1980s when he won a Formula 1 test drive. When that was axed, he had to wait four decades to finally realise his grand prix aspirations.

European and UK manufacturers ranging from Iso to De Tomaso and from Jensen to Sunbeam saw an easy route to performance by fitting big American V8 engines into their relatively light sports car chassi

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w