The wild cards

People who have shaped our world

A fresh impetus behind grand prix racing breaks down the barriers. Matt James looks back

IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN – especially in Formula 1. While British teams, draped in the deepest of verdant hues, arguably ruled the roost in the early 1960s, the glory days of British Racing Green wer

For two weeks every year a windswept, rain-lashed but beautiful and magical island in the Irish Sea becomes the centre of the bike racing universe. Bike celebrates this year’s action and the people, bikes and stories that make it unlike anything else on Earth

One minute we were rubbing in the sun cream, the next hunkering under brollies as the good old UK weather kept the British Touring Car Championship guessing at bucolic Oulton Park. The series’ annual

Matt James looks at the likely star contenders for the British Grand Prix showdown this weekend