For some time now, a consortium of major manufacturers has been threatening its own series, the Grand Prix World Championship....
Car names have always fascinated me. Brands yes, but particularly model names. There have been countless quirky ones over time,...
I’m approaching my tenth anniversary of being hooked up to the Internet. One thing about the Net is that it is recording motor racing history. In my neck of the woods, a “food park” has opened. You may be wondering what a food park is, lettuce roaming free as nature...
In the April edition of VRJ, both the editor and Robert Daley independently complained about cinema’s treatment of motor racing. When I first began writing this column for VRJ, Sylvester Stallone was making “Driven” and I predicted it would be a clunker. That wasn’t clever; everyone I know in motor...
You know the eternal pub debate about who is the greatest driver ever, or which was the greatest drive? I’m up for that, provided it is a debate, in a pub, with friends. In the right atmosphere it’s great fun, but it’s best left in the pub. To really know...
Ferruccio Lamborghini, whose businesses included tractors and air conditioning units, once treated himself to a Ferrari. He found it wanting...
Jenks used to write pieces titled, “Pity the Poor Historian”, where he would list, say, the conflicting reasons for a...
At the moment, Michael Schumacher is setting records, that will never be beaten. How can I be so sure? The...
Regular readers of this column will know that I delight in the obscure, so imagine my joy when at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed, I finally came face to face with a 1955 Abarth 207. This was an achingly pretty Fiat-engined 1100 cc sports racer built with SCCA racing...
We celebrate Ferrari in this issue [Click here to see Ferrari Special Issue], but how much is Ferrari’s success due...
As I write this column in late April, the mass media is full of stories about Ayrton Senna. I must be the only person who saw Senna’s early races not to have grasped that I was seeing greatness in formation, but I didn’t. It’s amazing how stories get changed in...
I once accepted a commission to write a book called AZ of Sports Cars. It was to cover the post-war period and I went through a few reference books and figured that would mean about 200 makes. In the end, I found nearly 900 makes and they included the Phoenix...
