July 6 1969

The Ron Tauranac-designed BT26 had tough acts to follow: its double championship-winning BT19 and BT24 predecessors. The chassis was good, Jochen Rindt often qualifying near the front in 1968 and taki

Difficult, changeable conditions hit Peter Auto’s Spa-Classic from 23-25 May in Belgium, so perhaps it wasn’t a great surprise that the experienced Oliver Bryant took victory in the wet, all-Porsche 9

Jaguar XJS Started: 2nd Result: 1st “I liked driving the XJS,” recalls Brundle of the European Touring Car Championship racing he did in 1983. “I learned to love it. It was a handful, massive V12 in t

Trackside photographers often get a better view of a race than anyone else, even though they may not realise what their camera has seen until they go through the results afterwards – in the old days,

Detroit muscle and European saloon-car racing were once intertwined. However, AMC was rarely represented on track, which made the arrival of the Spirit AMX all the more unexpected. Team Highball built

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go