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Ayrton Senna: Testing the McLaren Lamborghini
A three-time World Champion frustrated by a not so competitive car has to make a decision. But Ayrton Senna was pushing. In October 1993, a year after he tested the Penske Indycar Ayrton Senna had to...
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Video Documentary: Henri Toivonen – His Rally Days
Henri Toivonen was, without doubt, one of the fastest, most spectacular and most popular rally drivers of his generation. His tragic death, with co-driver Sergio Cresto, in 1986 was a devastating blow...
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Interview: John Harvey
John Harvey is one of Australia’s most versatile and accomplished racing drivers. He won numerous Speedway titles in the 50s and 60s, before switching to road racing where he successfully campaigned...
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Video: Mansell stars in 1983 BBC Rally Sprint
What happens when you pit four rally drivers and four grand prix drivers in identical MG Maestros against each other around Donnington? “The best race and rally sprint we’ve ever had”, according to...
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For Sale: Jaguar XJR-9
Jaguar’s XJR-9 is the car that took it to Porsche at Le Mans and won. The gentlemen at Fiskens have one for sale, so I’m going to try my luck with the Christmas list. 1988 and a Porsche has won every...
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Video: The 1970 24 Hours of Daytona
The 24 Hours of Daytona kicked off the 1970 World Sportscar Championship in sublime style. Defending champions Porsche were gearing up to fight off a feisty Ferrari, who had returned to the...
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Video: The Sweet Sounds of the Ligier-Matra JS9
Mario Andretti says it all in introduction to this on-board video; “The sound of the Matra engine was just… spectacular. It just sounded like power.” Jacques Laffite drove the Ligier-Matra JS9 in the...
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Video: Porsche at Le Mans in the 1980s
Porsche is celebrating their 2014 Le Mans comeback with video look back at the cars and drivers who made history at the Circuit de la Sarthe. The German marque dominated the 24 hour race during the...
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Best of the Cahier Archive: Emerson Fittipaldi
“Emmo” as he was known to his huge legion of fans, was Brazil’s first Formula One World Champion. With two World Championships, 14 wins and six pole positions, Fittipaldi paved the way for future...
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Patrick Depailler: One of the old school
When you look back at some of the real characters of Formula 1 from the 60s, 70s and 80s, no one was less ‘F1’ than Patrick Depailler. Forget your healthy diets and exercise, Depailler’s regime was:...
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Enduring: Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring Celebrate Anniversaries in 2012
2012 is to be a big year for classic races, with the 24 Hours of Daytona, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Twelve Hours of Sebring all set to celebrate significant anniversaries. First off the line is the 24...
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Illustration: March 89P Porsche
In 1989 Teo Fabi drove his Quaker State Oil sponsored Porsche to its only victory in the CART Series at the Red Roof Inns 200 on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, USA. It was also the...
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Video: Fresh Moods
The internet can throw up some interesting surprises, even when it seems everything imaginable (and slightly too much that isn’t) has already had its 15 (megabytes) minutes of fame. So it was with...
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Video: Jackie Stewart on Project 34
Hop in Tyrrell’s ‘Project 34’ for a run around Paul Ricard with Jackie Stewart a few weeks after the radical racer was introduced in London. Designed by Derek Gardner, the P34 is one of Formula One’s...
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The Dakar Rally: “A school of life”
The motorsport season is always an adventure, but there can be no bigger adventure than the Dakar Rally that traditionally starts on New Year’s Day. Originally run from Paris, France to Dakar,...
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Video: A lesson in Steering with a Heavy Right Boot
One of the aspects of retro racing that I miss the most when watching modern Formula One is all the sliding around that the modern cars don’t do. I miss when drivers could afford to, and really had...
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George Waltman completes the 1968 24 Hours of Daytona solo
George Waltman sits in his Aztec Racing Morgan Plus 4 after single handedly completing the 1968 24 Hours of Daytona at Daytona International Speedway. Waltman’s entry at Daytona that year is one of...
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Video Series: F1 1978 – The Shape Of Things To Come
Colin Chapman flipped the Formula One world upside down during the 1978 Formula One season, introducing the glued-to-the-ground Lotus 79 in Belgium and changing the shape of Formula One cars forever....
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Video: Jackie Stewart drives the March Judd 881 and declares it “very strange”
“Too uncomfortable and too cramped” was Jackie Stewart‘s summary of the Adrian Newey designed March Judd 881. Jackie was also less the complimentary about the entire concept. He said “The car was very...
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Video Series: Car Wars – Formula 1 season 1979
A year after Colin Chapman began using ground effects to glue his Lotus 79s to the ground Formula One was a very different beast. Four world champion drivers would compete in the 1979 Formula One...
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