May 8, 1980 monaco

HE WAS A man who was going places, often several places at once. Few racing drivers jousted with jeopardy with such regularity as Willy Mairesse. He was fast and he was committed but all too often he

Thirty-five years ago, the ambitious Eddie Jordan launched his own grand prix dream despite a hand-to-mouth existence and an inventive attitude to money. He made his mark in 1991.

Dacia has won the Dakar Rally. Now there’s a sentence few would ever have expected to read just a few years ago. But under Renault ownership, the Romanian budget car brand has gained an entirely new a

The most challenging corner of the post-war period.” Those were the words of Motor Sport’s Denis Jenkinson when that corner, or rather sequence thereof, appeared under threat 30 years ago. He was talk

Our rally correspondent Gerry Phillips mourned the deaths of Toyota team manager Henry Liddon and leading co-driver Nigel Harris in a light aircraft accident on Africa’s ‘other’ WRC round. The Japanes

The three Defenders that tackled this year’s Dakar Rally (p48) represented the first works entry on the gruelling rally raid from JLR or its predecessors. But it wasn’t the first time a manufacturer-o