Le mans at the double

Anyone scanning the entry list for the Endurance Racing Legends grid at this year’s Le Mans Classic would have noted the presence of famous marques such as Audi and Bentley, plus the usual GT contende

Has there ever been a model so enigmatic yet charismatic, so awash with magical beauty and talent as the Alfa Romeo Type 33? On the track, Carlo Chiti’s 1966 design took a couple of years to find its

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…

They said Antonio – later ‘Tony’ – Lago was ‘spietato ma con grande fascino’ (which is to say ‘ruthless, but charming’). And they said of his most famous car that it was ‘une veritable oeuvre d’art’.

This XK120 was bought new by Lancashire cobbler Robert Lawrie whose special boot design led to him becoming the official supplier to the 1953 Everest expedition, the team that accompanied Sir Vivian F

Being fired through time and space by a turbocharged Porsche engine is one of life’s great pleasures. We salute the best of the breed