After a hearty breakfast and a last minute dip into the onsen, the second day of the Marronier Run was going to be all about admiration. I headed out to the front of the Hotel nice and early so that I could make full use of the beautiful morning light that was just breaking over [...]
Events like the Donington Historic Festival are like attending a year’s worth of the best racing events imaginable in one weekend, crossed with a time warp. That means the most exciting racing cars from across the last century, all in one place, all for you. One minute you can be watching priceless Ferrari and Aston [...]
It’s right back at Daikoku PA now for a final look at the other day’s supercar gathering. During the few hours that I was there I literally never stopped walking around, because as cars left, more kept coming in. By around lunch time the lot was so full that a many were forced to park [...]
The launch of the new Jaguar F-Type has meant the reintroduction of the classic Jaguar sportscar letter-based naming convention after an almost 50 year break. C- and D-Type Jaguars conquered the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times in seven years during the ’50s; E-Types won their class at Le Mans in the ’60s and [...]
The interior of the building gleams white with almost hospital levels of shine and crispness. Cars glitter under the lights, some looking like they’ve literally just rolled off the production line, others stripped back and in the process of being attended to by the large team of surgeon-mechanics. Everywhere chrome sparkles and immaculate paint reflects. [...]
Last weekend’s Donington Historic Festival provided a feast for the eyes both off and on the track. The hour-long Group C race kept the big crowd entertained as they were treated to a range cars from across the period. Some exclusive cars were brought out to play, like the Sauber-Mercedes C9, which flew around Donington [...]
The Donington Historic Festival is now in its second year, and for 2012 it has continued the theme of bringing a wide variety of classic racing series to the public combined with open access to all the paddocks – and open arms for as many car clubs as they could fit onto the in-field. Like [...]
One of the most popular displays to take in at the Goodwood Revival – and an easy way to lose many pleasurable hours – is free to see before you even get into the track's confines. This is the People's Concours, the demarcated area just inside the car parks where invited pre-'66 exotica and otherwise [...]
As usual with the Goodwood Revival, it's difficult to know where to start, story wise. There is simply so much on show that three days is simply not enough to cope with the event. Even getting out of the car parks can take hours – and that's just when you arrive, as even there you [...]
? The Goodwood Revival. An incomparable sensory overload of racing nostalgia, where anything post 1966 is decidedly not cricket, but where the sweet smell of hot engine oil and the roar of engines most definitely is. Year after year the Revival outdoes itself with the range of cars, bikes and 'planes on display, and [...]
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Sunshine on a spring day. Cricket being played on the village green outside Kew Gardens in West London. And a V12 Jaguar E-Type convertible. Perhaps the perfect English combination for the perfect English classic sportscar? There's something about the long, swooping lines of an E-type that stops me in my tracks: from the four-pipe exhaust [...]
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