Blogs

Early Years Scrapbook, compiled by Stirling Moss and Philip Porter

The following illustrations are a small sample taken from the Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1929-1954, published by Porter Press, compiled by Stirling Moss and Philip Porter Aileen Moss, Stirling’s mo...

Sir Stirling Moss obituary

It is with enormous sadness that we learn of the passing of 'Mr. Motor Racing', Sir Stirling Moss. For most British schoolboys of the '50s and enthusiasts worldwide, the exciting vibrant name Sti...

The GT Ferrari that turned amateurs into pros

If a racing driver at Le Mans hears that they have been described as “an amateur”, they are not likely to be best pleased. But as sports car racing flourished through the 1960s, being called an ama...

The Supersonic styling that put an Italian coachbuilder in the spotlight

Crashing and burning during its competition debut on the 1953 Mille Miglia road race might easily have been the end of the Italian GT nicknamed ‘Supersonic’, but the flames of that accident consum...

The Mini, the Space Race, and Swinging Sixties scandals

The Sixties was the time of Sputnik satellites and Saturn rockets, of Yuri Gagarin going into Earth’s orbit and Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon, and yet today when people share photographs of t...

Matthew Field: My life with 'The Italian Job'

Above: Matthew Field speaking at the Royal Automobile Club during The Self Preservation book launch. Photo by Mark Lewis Photography. Throughout the summer I have been busy promoting my new book T...

Ford versus Ferrari

In the 95 years since the first Le Mans 24 Hours, few battles have captured the imagination as did the Ford versus Ferrari saga in the 1960s. Ferrari had won the French classic seven times since 19...

The man behind those blue-and-orange Le Mans winners

The Gulf Oil logo. Powder blue and tangerine orange. Low-slung Ford GT40s, mighty Porsche 917s, open-top Mirage-Fords. All are synonymous with John Wyer, the Englishman who spent American oil-indus...

Martin Brundle, an AWOL James Hunt, and their second careers

He battled wheel-to-wheel with Senna and Schumacher, won the 24-hour races at Le Mans and Daytona, was crowned World Sportscar Champion, successfully switched careers from racing to broadcasting, ...

How nationalism and an iron-fisted ruler put Fangio on the world stage

It’s an uncomfortable truth, but the springboard to Juan Manuel Fangio’s five World Championships was provided by an army general-turned-President who welcomed Nazi war criminals into his country ...