Flashback...

With the global sportscar scene buoyant right now and Le Mans upcoming, Matt James reflects back to a time when the World Sportscar Championship disappeared altogether against a highly political backdrop in 1991

The idea of a racing car competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans emblazoned with the Harrods department store livery on its flanks sounds somehow incongruous. Just as unlikely back in 1995 was the notion

THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY SAW GRAND PRIX racing reach a new zenith in the ’90s. Active suspension – first seen on a Lotus as early as 1981 – was perfected. Paddleshift transmissions – a late-’80s innova

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Monaco Grand Prix had more than one ‘first’ this year but, as it turns out, introducing a title sponsor in TAG Heuer had about as much impact o

Red Bull had ample reason to be concerned after the Miami Grand Prix. Max Verstappen may have successfully pounced for pole position, but there was a sense of inevitability that he would be leapfrogge

The year is 1968. And if you’re a racing driver in the British Saloon Car Championship and your name’s not Frank Gardner, bad luck. You just lost. Because to be fast that year, only one thing would do