Mike Lawrence In a recent editorial, Casey Annis bemoaned wind tunnels and the negative effect they have had on racing...
Mike Lawrence There’s a general feeling that endurance racing is about to enter a new age. Porsche is back and...
Mike Lawrence The size and shape of drivers is becoming an issue under the new regulations for Formula One. In recent years constructors have been able to build their cars under the weight limit, which has been 642 kg (dry car plus driver in race gear), and so have been...
Mike Lawrence By now, everyone who wants to see Rush has done so and formed their own opinion. There is...
Mike Lawrence There is plenty to celebrate about Aston Martin, not least its survival skills as the automotive Houdini. A question remains: Why it was so unsuccessful in racing during most of the 1950s? Had it been better managed, it should have vied with Ferrari. David Brown had inherited an industrial...
Mike Lawrence We are seeing some quite extraordinary prices paid for certain cars, and some people have recalled the late 1980s when prices shot through the roof. Then the bubble burst and, in its wake, so did bankruptcies, court cases and at least one suicide. This time, however, I think...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
Among the journals to which I contribute is Rewind, a quarterly based in Singapore. Recently the editor, Eli Solomon, wrote a wonderful piece on Malaysian motor racing specials of the 1950s. Had you seen the pictures alone, you would have been hard-pressed to guess the country of origin, though the...
Every Brit in motor racing of a certain age blames Bill Boddy and Denis Jenkinson for the fact that we...
