Going for the gold

I’M LYING ON A MATTRESS IN ROS’S FRONT GARDEN, arms folded over her garden wall. Half a mile away the first bike leaves the line. Before it gets to us in about 13 seconds time it will already have had

A seemingly superhuman ultrarunning barrier is tantalisingly close to being shattered. So close, in fact, that we could see it happen this year. Here’s what it will take to push beyond the edge – and who has the grit to do it

The silhouette of the Fastnet Lighthouse, the austere, wild and desolate 177ft seamark in the Atlantic Ocean at the southern tip of Ireland, that marks the turning point in the Rolex Fastnet Race, is

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

Poor Baka. She’s a mess. Her naked carbon fibre panels are yellowed and dulled from testing different lacquer finishes. Jagged chunks are missing from her butterfly doors. Everywhere the light touches

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