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A race for pre-war sports cars was a fitting highlight of the Donington Historic Festival from 2-4 May, as Donington Park circuit marked the 90th anniversary of its first Grand Prix. Gareth Burnett’s

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

Richard Attwood strides into the pub, dapper as ever just days after his 85th birthday, and greets me with an enormous grin. The pub is significant, not for what, but where it is. When we were arrangi

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

Drive It Day, the annual classic celebration that marks the anniversary of the One Thousand Mile Trial of 23 April 1900, returned this year on 27 April. The initiative, created by the Federation of Br

Surrounded by forest and the flatlands of rural Sweden, Anderstorp was the home of the Swedish Grand Prix from 1973 to ’78 when ‘Superswede’ Ronnie Peterson was at the height of his career. It was a p