Sportscar & Petrolheads

When Volvo were first rumoured to be entering the BTCC for 1994, many assumed that the car's competition debut would in the form of a conventional 850 saloon-based car. Volvo managed to keep it a secret and at the the opening round of the 1994 British...

This quality cotton, print-on-demand sweatshirt, celebrates the mechanical marvel that is the four-stroke engine with it's Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow "Otto" cycle. 

The Official 1998 Goodwood Festival of Speed poster printed on to a high quality hoodie. World renowned motorsport artist Peter Hearsey has produced many of the official Festival of Speed posters and this is one of the most memorable.  1998 saw the...

The Sauber-Mercedes C9 'Group C' sportscar was introduced in 1987 as a continuation of the partnership between Sauber as a constructor and Mercedes-Benz as an engine builder.  It was powered by a 5.0 litre twin-turbo V8 engine that produced...

Technically advanced, the Peugeot 905, with its carbon fibre chassis and light alloy naturally aspirated V10 engine, was developed during 1990 by Peugeot Talbot Sport with the intention of competing in the 1991 World Sportscar Championship under its new...

Whilst it wasn't the most successful Group C sportscar, the Lancia LC2 certainly made up for it's poor reliability and thirst for fuel, with it's classic Italian looks and style.  Developed in conjunction with Ferrari to tackle the World Sportscar...

The Porsche 956 was the dominant force in World Sportscar racing in the early 1980s in the expert hands of the likes of Derek Bell, Jacky Ickx, Jochen Mass and Hans Stuck.  But the most memorable achievement for the marque came at the 1983...

The Jaguar factory hadn't secured an overall Le Mans victory since 1957 and during the early 1980s, the World Sports-Prototype Championship had been dominated by Porsche.  But then in 1987 it all clicked and the new challenger to the throne, in the...