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THERE’S CLEARLY a love for Gordon Murray and his obsession with lightweight and fit-for-purpose cars among Octane writers and readers alike. There has also been a bit of coverage of the first hybrid c

MICHAEL TURNER, WHO died last year on 1 December, aged 91, was a towering figure in motorsport and aviation art. He spent his early years in Harrow and was obsessed with all things aeronautical, exten

Legendary tuning specialist Ed Iskenderian died on 4 February, at the age of 104. Best known as ‘The Camfather,’ his small workshop in Culver City, California, fabricating camshafts with a single grin

One of the central themes throughout motorsport history is how it has pioneered innovations. Unsurprisingly, many of these have concerned the cars themselves, but there have also been other technologi

The excellent article on Leyton House F1 [The team that fired Adrian Newey, March] brought back memories. I was their insurance broker at the time along with many other F1 teams and their principals.