Touring cars are great to watch for a number of reasons. Mostly notably the racing is extremely close and you’ll see cars passing each other in places that you never thought possible. Another draw, for me anyway, has always been that you can clearly see that they carry some DNA… Read more
Tag: Ford
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FIA GT1 sounds sweet
February 9th, 2010 | Ed Foster | 3 Comments
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Latest Issue – March 2010
February 4th, 2010 | Web Editor
Lotus Special
Favourite Team Lotus moments
Nigel Roebuck’s highlightsThe new F1 team
Mike Gascoyne reveals aims for 2010 ‘comeback’Voices of Team Lotus
Predictions and reflections from Colin’s menLotus 79 track test
Andrew Frankel drives Andretti’s title winnerOther Features
Virgin Racing
How Manor Motorsport teamed up with Nick Wirth to… Read more -
Lowndes says g’day to Roary
Craig Lowndes, the three-time Australian V8 Supercar Champion and four-time Bathurst winner, is the latest star to be recruited by Roary the Racing Car.
The popular children’s television show is narrated by Sir Stirling Moss and also features the voices of Murray Walker and Peter Kay, but the producers were… Read more -
Why Ickx feels lucky
January 4th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 9 Comments
A few days after Christmas I had the pleasure of talking to Jacky Ickx for a book I’m writing about the history of Carl Haas and Newman/Haas Racing. Thirty years ago Ickx won the Can-Am championship driving a Lola for Haas’s team, and I wanted to talk to him about… Read more
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The Sprint Cup’s fast starters
March 9th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Four of 36 NASCAR races down and the Sprint Cup is wide open. At this early stage four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads the series from Clint Bowyer and last weekend’s winner Kurt Busch, while defending champion Jimmie Johnson has yet to win a race and is 13th in the points.… Read more
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Legends of Le Mans
February 25th, 2009 | Ed Foster | No Comments
After the success of last year’s Jim Clark Film Festival, Legends Film Festivals is returning this year with ‘Legends of Le Mans’.
The festival, dedicated to the history of the Le Mans 24 Hour race, will take place in Oxfordshire on March 7/8 and will feature three hours of archive… Read more
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Win tickets to Wales Rally GB
October 24th, 2008 | Web Editor | 2 Comments
Wales Rally GB, the final round of the high-octane FIA World Rally Championship, takes place from 4-7 December 2008, and you can be part of it.
Motor Sport has teamed up with Wales Rally GB to offer readers the chance to win a pair of one-day passes to access all… Read more -
Parnelli Jones’s radical ideas
May 2nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 6 Comments
Parnelli Jones is one of the living legends of American racing, up there in the pantheon with Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney. Jones dominated three of the seven Indy 500s he started and won the race in 1963, beating Jim Clark. He looked to be a clear winner… Read more
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Fry stirs up Honda
April 23rd, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 4 Comments
I set out, the other day, to talk to two of the Fat Cats of Formula 1. It was only a partial success.
I wanted to talk to Nick Fry (above) from the Honda team and to Christian Horner (below) from Red Bull Racing. I succeeded in the former and… Read more
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Audi v Peugeot – the gloves are off
March 12th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 2 Comments
(1971 Le Mans 24 Hours, Pedro Rodriguez & Jackie Oliver (Porsche 917 LH) leads Gerard Larrousse & Vic Elford (Porsche 917 LH), Mark Donohue & David Hobbs (Ferrari 512M), and Jo Siffert & Derek Bell (Porsche 917 LH))
Do you remember the great days of Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans?… Read more
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