Cadging for cash

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

Even before you meet Lawrence Stroll, there’s a foolproof way of forming a strong impression of his success and prowess at leadership. Just take a walk along the wide central corridor of his brand-new

To many onlookers, the battle-scarred pea green Willment sportscar at the back of the eclectic Historic Sports Car Club Griffiths Haig Trophy races at Silverstone at the end of May might have been ove

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

The world of historic racing has undergone some sizeable changes in recent years. Several organisers have changed hands, new categories have been created and, as time continues to march on, there has

During four decades of classic car enthusiasm, I’ve personally encountered only three real examples of a barn find: I recall a straw-filled barn (literally) at a Cornish farm we camped on as a child,