You know what it’s like when a friend gets a touch of fame and it goes to his/her/other head . . .

I bet you’re looking for lots of stuff about the race that stops the nation . . .

Now that we’re the second-wealthiest country on earth and most other places . . .

You’ve got a big choice next weekend . . .

Yes, it’s our all-stars in cars Hollywood special bumper collector column celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bullitt the movie . . .

It’s out and official: Top Gear magazine’s rating of the top performance cars of 2018 is on sale in Britain (and that means also in Australia). Get ready to be shocked . . .

Last week The Australian exclusively revealed there are serious questions about the provenance of the 1989 Mobil 1 Racing Ford ­Sierra Cosworth RS500 being auctioned online by Gold Coast-based Lloyds Auctions . . .

You’d have to think Seb Vettel and the lads (no lasses) at Ferrari would feel like they have just gone a few rounds with Kenny Hayne  . . . 

There are serious questions about the provenance of the Ford Sierra . . .

Look, I don’t want to unduly worry you (well, any more than this column does every week) but I think all the signs are showing that the rapture, the end of the world and the apocalypse are pretty well on the way.

Friends, it was action all the way to the finish yesterday afternoon on Princess Wharf on the HOBART waterfront. In the final stages one car rolled, about for four found walls and nearby farms, the Lambo that went into the cow paddock yesterday and a Ferrari both were disqua...

Friends, you think you know excitement. You were excited when the Saints went into the 2010 grand final against Collingwood and then less excited when they drew. You were excited when you turned 21 only to be less excited when you realised you had to pretend to be responsib...

Friends, at 7.41am yesterday morning we decided to give the other 140 entrants a chance. Yes we decided to stop the starter motor working so we had to push start the might 1990 BMW 3 series (it celebrates its 30th birthday in 2020…30 car years is the equivalent of 193 huma...

Friends, you know the feeling when too much excitement is barely enough? Today was one of those days. Apart from a Ferrari missing a left hand turn 50 meters from the start and going straight into the lush Tasmanian trees, and a Lambo just running off the road

Firiends, the Weekend Australia Rally Team (WART) is competing in this year’s Targa Tasmania. This is basically the Shitbox Rally Team in a better car.

Friends, you and I have to stand together. It might interrupt F1 qualifying, your mingling in the Parc Chalet with the upbeat cocktail bar, garden, modern fit-out, lounge-style furniture with a social and vibrant ambience and daily DJ ($495pp, which is cheap compared to other fam...

As you know, Michael McMichael (more about his new career later) and I normally only enter rallies where, unless your name is Nigel, you have red hair, bad breath and you are a serial killer, you are ­welcomed like a lost brother, sister or other.

Saturday was Porker day. Yes we will be celebrating the birth of the first little Porsche sports car in a small stable in Gmund, Austria. The two wise men and one wise woman, Ferdinand, Ferry and Louise, were on hand on June 8, 1948, when the Erwin Komenda-designed, handmade 356 ...