Now that was a car

The year is 1968. And if you’re a racing driver in the British Saloon Car Championship and your name’s not Frank Gardner, bad luck. You just lost. Because to be fast that year, only one thing would do

With the global sportscar scene buoyant right now and Le Mans upcoming, Matt James reflects back to a time when the World Sportscar Championship disappeared altogether against a highly political backdrop in 1991

The Ferrari F50 is 30. Yet even today it is apparently impossible to judge it other than in the context of the F40. For this story we started planning with only the F50 in mind and then garnished it w

Few racing cars divide opinion like the Audi R8. Some regard the German manufacturer’s LMP prototype as the all-time great to which its record attests. Others have labelled it a boring winning machine

The idea of a racing car competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans emblazoned with the Harrods department store livery on its flanks sounds somehow incongruous. Just as unlikely back in 1995 was the notion

When you consider that Jody Scheckter’s driving style earned him the nickname ‘Sideways Scheckter’ in his early days, that he continued to drive racing cars that way right up to and throughout his For