Matt james: spending a life in the motorsport headlines

Matt James takes a look back at some of the more interesting and unusual front pages from the first four decades of Motoring News and looks at what else was contained within those issues

It was a decade of British success across a turbulent landscape. Matt James picks out some highlights

Here is a bold claim with which to kick off an interview/profile: no one has ever devoted to motor sport so great a proportion of such a long working life as has Neil Oatley. He is a McLaren stalwart,

I wonder if any readers recall, or attended, the British Leyland Special Tuning Day at Mallory Park in June 1972. The idea was to showcase the Special Tuning performance upgrades, as well as some more

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

Matt James puts the questions to the brains behind the fondly remembered Racing for Britain scheme to support young UK talents in the course of the 1980s