The anecdote has thus far been delivered by detour and digression. Wynne Mitchell is doubled up in mirth as he recounts a story surrounding Tony Pond’s third-place finish on the 1985 RAC Rally of Grea

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Having spurned a chance of getting my name down for the new BMW M2 CS, on reading your first drive (22 October) it looks like I might have made a bad decision. You so rarely award five-star ratings. M

He spent the best part of 30 years trying to make racing cars go faster, then the next quarter of a century striving to make them safer. But Peter Wright, who died in November aged 79, was an understa

A fun, but fragile French gem

Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai