The Formula One race cars I photographed generally had unusually high quality construction.But some exhibited an excellence of design and execution that placed them above the rest.My personal favorites were Gordon Murray’s Brabhams.Every component of his cars revealed clear evidence of his ingenious...
We need to review that second pitstop call; it’s so tricky because I didn’t pit and for the first half of the lap I thought I’d overcut the two cars in front of me but in 30 seconds it went from a soft to a full wet tyre and we lost out on the undercut. It happens; it...
Christmas mornings in childhood homes of Top Gear's Sunday Afternoon Club were usually spent looking through that year's Autocourse annual and, frankly not much else unless there was some Scalextric in the stocking. Yup, that's how hardcore we were/are. Autocourse is, of course, the grand...
The installation aspect of this research has been aided by Aston Martin, which, since Simonsen's tragic death, has been fitting racing nets in its race cars. "The new guidelines will enable all teams to fit the racing nets in a safe manner." As for when we will begin to see them in...
as F1 cars raced up and down Whitehall to Trafalgar Square. Unforgettable. © Dan Mullan/Getty Images for Formula 1 Ready to BoltThe world's fastest racing cars urged into life by the world's fastest ever runner - just part of an unforgettable pre-race ceremony in the United States. ...
In 2012 Praga re-entered the race car market with the launch of the R4S then the R1 race cars that today win in one-make, mixed prototype and mixed endurance race series in Australia, Dubai, the ÚK and ÚSA. The Bohema shares no single part with the R1, but the race car inspired...
I was shooting the race from the infield area at Hockenheim and it had settled down, so I decided to pop to the pits and shoot the pitstops from in front of the Benetton team garage. As I got to the pitlane the mechanics were already out, ready for one of their cars. I realised ...
Tragically, rising F1 star Stefan Bellof would lose his life at the corner during a sportscar race in 1985, but as the decade went on, so the safety precautions improved, with tyre barriers extended and run-off areas upgraded. From a visual point of view, the low-slung car...
Here are 25 used cars we found for under £10k this week A Viper vs ‘Vette showdown in Nevada at the home of Top Gun with Chris Evans and Sabine Schmitz. Matt LeBlanc outrunning villainous paparazzi in Morocco at the wheel of the Ariel Nomad. A pair of Reliant Rialtos, and, um, ...
The sea of spectators overwhelming the circuit would be a truly awe-inspiring sight to behold. The vast majority of this horde was there to celebrate the car adorned in red finishing in the top three. The cars driver, a true royal, would stand amongst......