Blogs

Murray signs off first T.50

By Wayne Batty Judging by recent happenings, it’s safe to say the gestation period for a contemporary hypercar is nothing less than four years. Croatia’s Rimac, maker of the blisteringly quick bat...

A Model Photographer

By Wayne Batty How diorama builder Nico Ongena uses the illusion of scale to capture visual magic. Three years ago, Nico Ongena began a new hobby: taking photographs of relatively cheap 1/64 scale...

The Multi-Union

Backfire from a famous Brooklands racer By Michael Kliebenstein Above: Chris Staniland behind the wheel of the magnificent Multi-Union. The car is airborne at the notorious bump at Brooklands Oute...

The Aintree Phantom

By Michael Kliebenstein How I came to own what was likely the first safety car in Formula 1 Above: The gargantuan Rolls-Royce Phantom I, chassis 84FH, was converted in 1940 for the RAF into a shoo...

Ghost Story

Peter Burn recalls a wonderful little memory from September 1965, just four months after he first joined Autosport. 'Before I even had a company car, I was – rather at the last minute – despatched ...

Porsche 917 meets 963 at Daytona

By Wayne Batty There’s even earlier history here, but the last time Porsche went top-tier endurance racing in both the North American IMSA series and the FIA’s WEC (née World Sportscar Championship...

France in the '70s: Part 2

By Michael Kliebenstein Read part one of France in the '70s A year later, I returned to Dijon, again buying myself a very cheap Citroën Traction Avant 11 Légère to travel around in. I think it was ...

A Bugatti for Christmas

By Wayne Batty At the tender and still impressionable age of 13, Philip Porter received, as a birthday gift from his parents, a veritable tome on Bugatti written by the great expert Hugh Conway. Po...

France in the '70s: Part 1

By Micheal Kliebenstein Of all the amazing places I’ve experienced over the years, my most fond memories are of France in the seventies. Yes, I belong to a generation that grew up with the images o...

Bugatti Baby 2.0

When you are Ettore Bugatti and you need a birthday present for your son who is turning four years old, you don’t pop off to the department store for some die-cast trinket. No sir, you get your fac...