John F. Davenport

Jan 10, 2025 | motorsportmagazine.com | Jeremy Hart |Anthony Peacock |John F. Davenport |James Elson

It’s a big Silver Fern-shaped magnet pulling adventurous rally crews from around the world. 90 cars started, 60 of them historic rally cars, lured by this seven-day, 3000km endurance rally epic over the best stages in the world, matched only by the most stunning backdrops of the beautiful South Island of New Zealand.

Jul 31, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Simon Taylor |John Zimmermann |Adam Cooper |John F. Davenport

Dan Gurney is one of just a handful of drivers whose grand prix careers stretched from the fifties to the seventies. Certainly as far as Formula 1 was concerned, the legendary Californian spent most of his long career in pretty decent machines, although one exception occurred at Spa in 1962. Porsche opted to skip the race, so Dan took up an offer to drive a private Lotus-BRM 24. It turned out to be so bad that he refused to race the thing.

Jul 23, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Rob Widdows |Jackie Stewart |Adam Cooper |John F. Davenport

From his very early days in the sport Jackie Stewart made sure he always had good machinery at his disposal, and not just in Formula 1. Even when moonlighting in other categories he didn’t want just to make up the numbers. ‘That was part of the business,” says Stewart. “It’s no good driving a donkey. That’s what most people don’t understand. There’s a lot more to motor racing than steering the wheel.”However, there was one occasion when he lucked out.