Carrera panamericana 1950-1954

Your feature Great Lost Circuits reminds me each month of the Marlboro Motor Speedway in the States, right. This compact 1.8-mile track had nothing to do with the famous brand of cigarettes, but was s

At 10.43am on 11th March 1956, 104 riders left Milan’s Piazza Sant Elena for the start of the 39th Milano-Torino Classic. Ahead lay 225km and a finish on the track at Turin’s rather dilapidated Motove

Peter Auto resurrected its Imola Classic event from 25-27 July after seven years, with nine of its own grids plus the Alfa Revival Cup. The latter closed proceedings, with polesitter Davide Bertinelli

Ah, 1985: heart of the decade of Cold War superpowers and Dayglo socks. The year of Marty McFly and Back to the Future – “You made a time machine – out of a DeLorean?” Dodgy Sylvester Stallone action

For years, some of the more committed car makers had been quietly logging Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times for internal benchmarking and the odd press release. But then in 2008, Porsche suggested Ni

“Today is the third greatest day of my life.” Hans-Joachim Stuck has tears welling in his eyes. “After the birth of my two sons, nothing I’ve done has matched this. Nothing.” This from a man who has s