The fast show

Ex-drag racer aims to shatter 376mph speed record next month

When editor Joe Dunn messages to ask if it is OK to share your email address with Mercedes-Benz, it is intriguing to know why. Then when Mercedes-Benz Heritage almost immediately gets in touch to ask

The year 1948 was a significant one for British motoring and motorsport: on 18 September, racing was re-established with the inaugural fixture at Goodwood, and on 27 October the Earls Court Motor Show

The previous weekend’s British Grand Prix was a timely prelude to the Goodwood Festival of Speed’s biggest-ever celebration from 10-13 July, marking 75 years of Formula One. More than 100 cars charted

Looking back now, it seems so serendipitous. When Mike Gibbs got in touch to offer his Frazer Nash SS racer for a feature in Octane, he suggested that the nice people at Castle Combe circuit might be

It was an infamous wager made in 1930: drive from Cannes to London quicker than the Blue Train could make it from Cannes to Calais. The feat cemented the legend of the Bentley Boys. We try to top it in a Bentley Continental GT3-R