Aston Martin Nimrod

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All eyes are on the Aston Martin for this years Le Mans 24 hour race - but back in the early 1980´s it was the privateer Nimrod that came so close to beating the all-conquering Porsches in France
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Blue Train Bentley

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Bentley Blue Train Outside Charlton Hotel, Cannes

Captain Woolf Barnato wagered £200 he could beat Le Train Bleu from Cannes to London in his Bentley. Seventy-five years on history is repeated as Bentley itself re-enacts this epic dash.

Route Nationale 373 running from Troyes to Château-Thierry, east of Paris, is a little used D-road flanked by autoroutes that render it largely clear of heavy traffic. This perfect French road is long and straight, undulating over gentle rural hills. Visibility is good and the tree-lined ribbon of tarmac spearing north towards Calais is fast and open in true trans-continental style

Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B

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alfa classic car

Recently restored with its unique Touring Body Style, this Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B will be completing on the Mille Miglia (a thousand-mile race from Brescia to Rome and back) next year - celebrating a class win it notched up in 1938