“ A race that everybody enjoys but nobody understands” is how someone describes the Birkett Six-Hour Relay race to me. Since 1951 it has been a season-ending fixture race for the 750 Motor Club, which

By 1985, the hot-rod world had evolved into something far less rebellious and challenging than its pre- and post-war roots on the dry lakes of southern California. It had become the preserve of celebr

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

Twin-turbo V8 comes in very handy at times ...

By the late 1950s, the National Hot Rod Association, founded in 1951, had already made the once edgy and transgressive activity of drag racing not only respectable in North America, but also hugely an

More evidence that car people are the same the world over. In the way that some Chinese engineers recently thought a flat-eight engine was perfect for a motorbike, others have decided to make a niche,