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Days of Thunder is the best racing movie of all time.

So, then, the Senna movie and RUSH have gone down a storm – and rightly so. Not to put too fine a point on it, things were simply more exciting then. The circuits were bumpy, the …

San Marino Grand Prix, Imola 1994 – The worst weekend, part four

The worldwide release of Senna – The Movie has opened up a lot of memories, and it made me dig out a story I wrote a few years ago that ended up not being published. …

San Marino Grand Prix, Imola 1994 – The worst weekend, part three

May 1: Last year’s worldwide release of Senna – The Movie opened up a lot of memories about Ayrton Senna, in the build-up I dug out a series of stories I wrote a few years …

San Marino Grand Prix, Imola 1994 – The worst weekend, part two

In all the drama that was that weekend at Imola in 1994, it’s all too easy to forget that we also lost the very likeable Austrian Roland Ratzenberger on April 30, the day before Senna had …

San Marino Grand Prix, Imola 1994 – The worst weekend, part one

In 1994 racing legend Ayrton Senna lost his life, and as major a story as that was, it was just one part of a traumatic weekend that I experienced first hand. With the Senna Movie …

Vintage Racewear from Stand 21

Stand 21 is the world leader in made-to-measure equipment for racing drivers. Their comprehensive head to toe range includes a fantastic line of vintage inspired racing apparel.
The vintage range features open and full face …

Onboard with Johnny Herbert in the Mazda787B at Le Mans 2011

Ride onboard with Johnny Herbert in the Mazda the 787B, as he laps Le Mans for the first time in 20 years.
Herbert famously drove a massive final stint and steered the rotary powered Mazda to …

Legends: Tarquinio Provini

You’d have thought it was no contest – a small Italian factory’s two-valve single against a 16-valve four. But with one round remaining in the 1963 world  250 championship, Tarquinio Provini and his Moto Morini …