The 8th Avignon Motor Festival (F) portrays the rich history of Matra Sports with highlights being three straight wins at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the early 70’s and their F1 world championship with Jackie Stewart on Matra MS10, Matra MS80 and Matra MS84 in 1969.

One of the most skilful and natural drivers ever to grace Formula One, writes the three times F1 World Champion Jackie Stewart, in his foreword to Eoin Young’s biography of Chris Amon.

It was in 1966, when we saw the 32 year old John Surtees wrapping up the first Can-Am title in his Lola T70 Spyder, a car which still captures the imagination today.

Months of preparations are complete, and the Tasman revival 2010 is on the grid, engines revving, watching for the lights to turn green.

Motor racing has has generated lots of exiting stories and legendary moments. Some of the most interesting moments, from the golden age of motorsports, have been captured in the Grand Prix Originals collection.

‘Road Racing’, a publication by Linda Weldon,  features candid shots of the great drivers from an era when European Grand Prix stars competed head to head with road racing stars from Tasmania as well as North and South America in F1, Can-Am and F5000. This book, ninety-eight pages of black and white photographs, is dedicated [...]

It all started on public roads, similar to the Targa Florio, Reims, Rouen-les-Essarts and many other races from that period, but from 1927, the ADAC Eifelrennen was the first race event to be organized on the legendary Nürburgring race track.

What are they, Legendary Circuits? If you ask someone in his twenties, I am sure you will get a different answer, then when you ask someone my age. The first Grand Prix I watched live, was the 1967 Zandvoort Dutch GP. There I was, 14 years old at that time, buying myself a ticket with [...]

Three-times Formula One World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart ‘s sons have recorded a tribute song for their father’s 70th birthday and with a little help from Eric Clapton. An expression of true love between a father and son is sometimes unspoken; not so with the Stewart family. Paul Stewart, Sir Jackie’s eldest son, wrote a [...]

Marcos is one of the most enduring marques, which has become a legend among sports cars. Therefore Marcos celebrates 50 years in a new pictorial autobiography entitled “Making my Marque” by Lyn and Jeremy Marsh, founder of Marcos. With over 300 photographs, most of them previously unseen, it provides a colourful journey through adversity, excitement [...]