Blogs

Following the Mille Miglia

A thousand miles in the tyre tracks of the greatsIn its original guise, the Mille Miglia involved the bravest of drivers racing a thousand miles from Brescia to Rome and back, on public roads, some...

Classic Nostalgia 2022

Classic Nostalgia, held this past weekend at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, was yet another great reminder of why the glory days of motorsport are so worth celebrating. Listening to the melodic shriek ...

Wind Tunnel Wonder

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Pininfarina’s wind tunnel in Grugliasco, near Turin, Italy. Judging by how many other coachbuilders have come and gone over the years, ha...

Concorso D'Eleganza

Seeing pictures of Aston Martin’s superbly restored Bulldog taking the Coppa d’Oro at this past weekend’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este prompted a bout of nostalgia as I recalled a trip to Lake ...

Bowmaker Racing Team

Britain’s early appetite for Formula 1 success has been superbly documented in recent Porter Press publications, Vanwall – The Story of Britain’s First Formula 1 Champions, and BRM – Racing for Bri...

Packaging F1’s magic

Watching a Formula 1 race these days is an immersive experience. With the full weekend’s sessions exhaustively covered by more than 50 cameras, a squad of expert commentators and guest panellists ...

Disc Jockeying at Le Mans

There can be no doubt that Jaguar’s use of disc brakes at Le Mans in 1953 provided the cars from Coventry with a tangible performance advantage. The winning 3.4-litre C-type finished a full five l...

#InspiredByPorsche

Regular readers will no doubt be aware of Jaguar Land Rover’s less than cordial treatment of artists who choose to depict its vehicles in their work. ‘Cease and desist’ letters from the company’s l...

The Art of Wagger

Born in 1958, Klaus Wagger grew up in the Austrian Tyrol, surrounded by mountains, cows and an active motorsport scene which included F1 drivers Gerhard Berger and Karl Wendlinger. Famous though th...

Classic cars in slices

Anyone afflicted with a passion for cars has more than likely spent a disproportionately high percentage of their lives staring at the lines, curves and surfaces of some beautiful machines. Spend ...