Salt. Since the earliest days of recorded history, salt has in one form or another shaped the course of human...
How To Protect Yourself Once you have selected an overseas car for purchase, it should be inspected before conclusion of...
I was at a race meeting when a hunter/gatherer homed in on me, he had a race program in one hand and a pen in the other. He was scavenging for autographs. Hunter (offering the weapons of his calling): Would you sign this, please? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
I don’t know about you, but I’m big into planning. Whether it’s working around the house, restoring a racecar or...
Wales is not a country one readily associates with Formula One, but in September, a small group gathered to celebrate the completion of the Kieft Grand Prix car. It must hold the record for the longest gestation period of any racing car. It was begun in 1953 and will first...
Hold on a minute, let me just drag this over. Hrrrrmph. One more second while I climb on top. Ok,...
About this time last year, I wrote in this column about, for lack of a better description, securing your nuts....
I am considering registering my stomach as a trademark. Why not? Damon Hill has registered his eyes as a trademark on the grounds that they immediately identify him. Hill’s eyes, my manly corporation, what’s the difference? Today’s F1 drivers are registering anything they can get away with. A friend of...
If you follow the business section of the paper – or the general automotive press for that matter – then...
There are some extremely important aerodynamic considerations which a driver must be aware of while racing with other cars at...
Every so often you encounter an image which stops you in your tracks. For me it was a photograph of Geronimo. Yup, that Geronimo – not John Wayne’s best buddy. The photo was taken in 1906, Geronimo had become a farmer and he was at the wheel of his Model-T....
Is it me? Am I the only person on the planet that feels that parting with a special car is...
We’re all aware of a history of heart failures in vintage racing, some of them unfortunately fatal. Recently there have...
I am not politically correct. I have never met anyone in motor racing who is. Motor racing and political correctness do not go together. Motor racing is dangerous, expensive, it uses fossil fuels for fun and it is funded by the tobacco industry. Not much political correctness there. I have...
Think for a moment what makes a driver great – a true champion. Go ahead, I’ll wait…hmmmh, hmmh, hmmmh. Done?...
Motorsport magazine, which I had the privilege to edit in the mid-1980s, recently ran a piece which claimed that 1976 was the best year in the history of the World Championship. It’s in my nature to argue with any such statement, but I think the writer was right. Had Hollywood...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
As strange as it may seem, as I write this month’s column, I am looking down on Greenland. That’s right,...
I wrote a book on the history of March, which came out in 1989 under the title, “Four Guys And A Telephone.” A telephone was all that Robin Herd, Graham Coaker, Alan Rees and Max Mosley had when they agreed to establish March. They then each put in £2,500 as...
The pundits, who supposedly know something about these things, say that in racing, rain is the great equalizer. But from...
It depends which Nelson you mean – and which Victory. In Portsmouth, there once was a station called Radio Victory,...
Ok, Ok… here’s the pitch. You’ve got this kinda mush-mouthed, body-builder guy who is a washed-up racecar driver, see? We’ll get a big name to play him like Sly Stallone – movie sells itself at this point, right? And his former owner – let’s say he’s wheelchair-bound like Frank Williams,...
There I was driving a 1931 V16 Cadillac built to the command of a maharajah – a car which has...
The man on the other end of the phone seemed quite adamant, “You really can’t fully appreciate the complete history...
Have you noticed how old cars are getting faster and faster? I wish I got faster as I grow older. Interestingly, the Goodwood Motor Circuit tells the story because Goodwood has remained unchanged since 1952. That year a chicane was added to the original circuit (did you have a “Goodwood...
In the end of May, I had the good fortune to make my way up to the Wine Country Classic at Sears Point Raceway. This is always a real treat – great weather, a wonderful rolling track nestled in the hills of Northern California’s famed Napa Valley, and of course,...