“i was walking into the worst day of my motor racing life”

There have been some sensational Formula Ford Festival finals, but the 1988 edition was one which lives long in the mind of all who were there to witness it.

Formula Ford’s Walter Hayes Trophy showpiece at Silverstone this weekend is set to thrill once again, as Graham Keilloh explains

OCTOBER 18-19

A REMARKABLE c1904 Opel Darracq is set to make its debut on the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 2 November. Discovered stashed in the basement of a Hanover technical university in 1

Don’t be fooled by the beautiful baby blue skies in these pictures: the first day of this annual spectacular on the seven-mile beach where JG Parry-Thomas set a new Land Speed Record in Babs in 1926 (

Apart from dalliances with V8s (and begging an exception for a currently owned Ford twin-turbo V6), I’ve always had a preference for small road cars with simple engines. So why I should be seized by a