Blogs

The Art of Driving - Stirling Moss in conversation with Philip Porter

PP: “Driving fast obviously consists of many factors, including reading the road, braking, setting-up the car, steering, balancing on the throttle, getting the power down, different lines, experim...

Stirling Moss - Some Personal Memories

By Mark Cole - Motorsport Commentator and Author I know that you will be as sad as I in losing our hero. I was fortunate to grow up in Tring, Hertfordshire, where Stirling lived with his family at ...

Stirling Moss - Mission Impossible 1 by Philip Porter

The first in a series featuring incredible feats of driving against the odds. 1955 Targa Florio in Mercedes-Benz 300SLR with Peter Collins Having taken the first three places in the Tourist Trophy,...

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...

Experiencing Special Drives - A Classic Car Eulogy

by Michael Kliebenstein, Author and Automobilist Those of you who have the good fortune of spending hours, days or even weeks behind the wheel of a well-sorted classic car will surely agree: it is...

The Self-Porter Press Society, by Matthew Field

When Philip Porter and I first sat down to chat about the possibility of producing a book to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Italian Job – neither of us could  have imagined the incredible jo...

BRP’s Indianapolis Swan Song, part 1

BRP’s Indianapolis Swan Song by Ian Wagstaff ‘I like to be in America’ – Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story The British Racing Partnership can be recalled as an equipe of historical significance. I...

The Richard Heseltine Column - The Joys of being a Motoring Writer

He was a bear of a man – half grizzly, half teddy. “What seems to be the trouble?” he asked, we’re guessing rhetorically. “You picked a great place to stop,” he blithely continued, as though we’d ...

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...

Surface to Air to Surface Missile

Porter Press author Ian Wagstaff has revealed there are depths to his character of which even his colleagues know nothing. Here we plumb the punning depths to reveal all. We begin this in-depth inv...