The Sixties was the time of Sputnik satellites and Saturn rockets, of Yuri Gagarin going into Earth’s orbit and Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon, and yet today when people share photographs of this decade, often they include a vehicle...
Above: Matthew Field speaking at the Royal Automobile Club during The Self Preservation book launch. Photo by Mark Lewis Photography. Throughout the summer I have been busy promoting my new book The Self Preservation Society: 50 Years of The Italian...
Did teams racing Porsche’s 956 sports-prototype step the wrong side of the line between technical ingenuity and cheating? And while the 956 and its successor, the longer-wheelbase 962, appeared to bring equal opportunity to many privateers, were some of these...
In the 95 years since the first Le Mans 24 Hours, few battles have captured the imagination as did the Ford versus Ferrari saga in the 1960s. Ferrari had won the French classic seven times since 1949, the last four...
The Gulf Oil logo. Powder blue and tangerine orange. Low-slung Ford GT40s, mighty Porsche 917s, open-top Mirage-Fords. All are synonymous with John Wyer, the Englishman who spent American oil-industry dollars so effectively that he became known as the greatest team...
Opening with a filmed message from Sir Michael Caine himself, the Italian Job evening at the MINI plant at Cowley got off to a cracking start. Sir Michael even revealed that he learnt to drive at the locations used during...
On the evening of May 30, a very distinguished panel of personalities assembled at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall to launch The Self Preservation Society - 50 Years of the Italian Job, the latest book from Porter Press. Those...
Tuesday 14 May saw us at the RAC in Pall Mall to launch our latest book – actually a two-volume set: One Formula – 50 Years of Car Design – Gordon Murray. There were two elements to this long, but very...
The Isetta is physically a small car but as an idea and a design concept it had a big impact on the automobile industry. Conceived and developed by the Italian motor scooter and motorcycle company, Iso, it was a brilliant...
Annoyance at decisions made by McLaren chief Ron Dennis was enough, in the end, for designer Gordon Murray to walk away from the world-famous company in Woking and establish his own enterprise. Setting-up Gordon Murray Design at the age of...
Goodwood Members Meeting Blog – by Albert Wall Unlike last year, this was a weekend to remember. Goodwood had decided to move the annual Members’ Meeting back a few weeks in the hope of some warmer weather and it certainly...
He battled wheel-to-wheel with Senna and Schumacher, won the 24-hour races at Le Mans and Daytona, was crowned World Sportscar Champion, successfully switched careers from racing to broadcasting, and goes places at the controls of his own helicopter – yet...
