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Rather unexpectedly, Bentley recently joined forces with James Otter, the Cornwall-based shaper of wooden surfboards, to produce a board featuring koa veneer selected from the woodstore at the Bentley

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amberley-books.com RRP £15.99 Over several decades Formula 1 struggled to gain a foothold in the USA – until a certain Netflix series blew the market open. This book looks back at the races and driver

Time to celebrate 75 years with an epic blast from track to track

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s

REGARDING your cover story in Octane 265 about the Ferrari F50, in the 1990s I worked for a Ferrari garage (Specialised Cars of Knutsford) that race-prepared an F50 for the Maranello Ferrari Challenge