Some of motorsport’s most enduring figures can’t resist the urge to keep racing. Matt James finds out why

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

Dave Partridge bought his Peugeot 106 1.3 Rallye to compete in motorsport events – and then the rules were changed. “I bought it 14 years ago for £450 with the aim of going sprinting and hillclimbing

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

Until just after 10pm, it was a normal Saturday night at The Spaniard’s Inn on Hampstead Heath. Glasses clinking, the background radiation of chatter and high spirits, staff dashing to and fro because

By tradition, the World Rally Championship should have been decided in a thick soup of mud and mist, the sport’s top stars slithering through treacherous British forest roads on a good old Rally GB wi