Lotus horror crash revisited

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.

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

With the 2026 Formula 1 season coming up fast, there is much anticipation around Aston Martin. The combination of a works Honda power unit and a car overseen by Adrian Newey has created a tantalising

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

If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable of self-aggrandisement. The second is that th

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