Superstitious? Not even a little bit? Are you one of those ritualistic types that won’t (or can’t) climb into your...
These are days of confusion. As I write this, there are either three days left in the Millennium or, depending...
Throughout the history of man and machine there have been inextricable links between automobiles and airplanes. Henry Ford’s corrugated Trimotor being one of the most obvious examples, and the temporary airport racetrack another. Funny thing about temporary circuits, however, is that they often leave lasting impressions (on both car and...
I have an old friend that works in law enforcement. I’m not talking about the local PD. Serious law enforcement,...
With flashing precision, my memory recaptures exactly the milli-second that motor racing entered my life. It was reading a three-month-old...
Hi there. I am your new back-page columnist. I would like you to think of me as a friend, a special friend. How can I make you like me? I could start by telling you that I live just over a mile from the Goodwood Circuit, and what a pain...
My father was in the Royal Air Force, so we tended to live on flat bits of England, a long...
I see that Sylvester Stallone has given up the idea of making a movie about Formula One and is looking...
I was at a race meeting when a hunter/gatherer homed in on me, he had a race program in one...
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...
I am considering registering my stomach as a trademark. Why not? Damon Hill has registered his eyes as a trademark...
Every so often you encounter an image which stops you in your tracks. For me it was a photograph of...
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...
Motorsport magazine, which I had the privilege to edit in the mid-1980s, recently ran a piece which claimed that 1976...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
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...
It depends which Nelson you mean – and which Victory. In Portsmouth, there once was a station called Radio Victory,...
There I was driving a 1931 V16 Cadillac built to the command of a maharajah – a car which has...
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...
To write this column I am taking time off from completing my contribution to a book. I need to take time off because I am facing one of the words I dread most – it is “Brooklands.” Brooklands haunts me. As an Englishman, I am supposed to know about cricket....
Is Renault French? Is the Pope a Catholic? I ask because Renault has bought the Benetton team and has renamed...
Last October, I was in the paddock at Indianapolis where all the historic racers were assembled. I found myself in...
