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Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

At this title we know the SLR in general and one, chassis 0004/55, in particular. It’s the car in which Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia after which the latter wrote his acc

The exquisitely detailed 1927 Rolls-Royce ‘Phantom of Love’ captured Best in Show at the Concours of Elegance, held at Hampton Court Palace from 5-7 September. Commissioned by Woolworth’s financial di

This will be popular – because who doesn’t love an Alfa Romeo? As you’ll have gathered from the title, there’s no place here for the pre-World War II glory years. The book begins post-war with the fir

European and UK manufacturers ranging from Iso to De Tomaso and from Jensen to Sunbeam saw an easy route to performance by fitting big American V8 engines into their relatively light sports car chassi