By Serge Vanbockryck For as long as I could remember I’d heard nothing but the best possible comments about the motorsport events that the Duke of Richmond and his team organised each year in Goodwood. Whether it was the Members'...
The Leviathan From 2022 onwards, GT cars in endurance racing will be built to GT3 regulations, which means they’ll be technically less sophisticated than the current GT2-based cars, but above all, should make them cheaper to develop, produce and run....
By Serge Vanbockryck Run from 1982 till 1990, Group C was arguably the most spectacular period in sportscar racing, with a record number of manufacturers involved and spectators attending. To master the fuel consumption limits, the engine designers had to...
By Serge Vanbockryck With the arrival of Group C in 1982, extreme engineering, wandering to and from the boundaries and frontiers of the technically achievable and regulatory permissible, eased off a bit as manufacturers were first and foremost trying to...
Biofuel and Ground Effects The mid-’70s were not only marked by technical innovations, but also by the first global oil crisis. The Western world suddenly realised it was too dependent on oil and soon the search for alternative fuels was...
Monocoques and wings Defeated in 1952 by a lack of reliability, rather than Mercedes speed, Jaguar returned with a vengeance in 1953 and with the next big thing in auto racing: the three British Green C-types were now equipped with...
For the first time in some years, the 2020 Le Mans 24-Hours will again feature a ‘Garage 56’ entry featuring ‘innovative technology’. But the routes nationales of La Sarthe have always been a non-stop automotive proving ground for over 90...
