Mike parkes

Apart from dalliances with V8s (and begging an exception for a currently owned Ford twin-turbo V6), I’ve always had a preference for small road cars with simple engines. So why I should be seized by a

So you want to be a Ferrari test driver, eh? The good news, says the man who would be making this irresistible job offer, is that you have longer than you perhaps thought: Raffaele de Simone’s recruit

YOU MIGHT ASK THE QUESTION ‘ARE these two Goodwins related?’ The answer is: not as far as Chris and I know, but a simple DNA test would settle it. A less scientific method, though I think also accurat

A REMARKABLE c1904 Opel Darracq is set to make its debut on the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 2 November. Discovered stashed in the basement of a Hanover technical university in 1

Advantage Elfyn Evans: the Welshman is back at the head of the World Rally Championship with just two rounds to go, following a dramatic hard-surface Central European Rally in October. Evans has a 13-

FRANK COSTIN FAMOUSLY didn’t much care for cars. He certainly didn’t consider their aesthetics to be of any great importance. It’s perhaps closer to the truth to say he thought looks irrelevant. All t