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Ignition • EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

Dates for your diary

BOOK NOW! • Some of these events may seem a long way off, but you need to secure your place and travel plans now to take part

Get out there! • There are dozens of tours and rallies on the calendar for 2025. We’ve done the easy bit by listing some here; you have the trickier task of choosing between them all

Further ahead • Intrepid adventurers, start preparing now for these overseas tours and rallies, all set to take place in 2026

Museum to sell $100m of its non-Indy cars • Three sales, packed with super-rare treasures, to include Silver Arrow (see p110), GT40 and Ferrari 250LM

ECCLESTONE SELLS £300M OF FI CARS • Mr F1 will part with 69 single-seaters collected over 50 years

Heading for the hill

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The Collector Jay Leno • Petrolhead farming: not the sole preserve of Harry and Clarkson

The Legend Derek Bell • Like father, like son? It’s all about being there for support

The Aesthete Stephen Bayley • Why speed means more than merely distance covered in a given time

The Driver Robert Coucher • Our resident XK owner might not be best pleased by recent news

Wandering on

REWRITING THE RULEBOOK • This Jaguar D-type had been raced, crashed and repaired before a second life as a Pebble Beach class winner. Octane investigates its groundbreaking transformation

JAGUAR THE REBIRTH • David Lillywhite guides us through Jaguar’s death or glory relaunch before four marque experts have their say on both the car and campaign

VICTORY AT LAST • After two attempts at Le Mans, this fabulous 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 finally took the endurance laurels at Spa in 1933. Massimo Delbò tells its stellar story

USING THE FORCE • It’s 50 years since Porsche launched the 911 Turbo. Octane takes a five-decade joyride

AN AMERICAN MILLE MIGLIA • More than that, in fact. Octane undertakes a road trip from Minneapolis to Monterey, to add another 3000 miles to a very well-used Porsche 911 turbo

Sylviane and Patrick Peter • They became involved in historic motoring by chance, but last month the power couple behind the Tour Auto and Le Mans Classic took the Lifetime Achievement trophy at the International Historic Motoring Awards

FULL SERVICE HISTORY • This uniquely storied ex-Fangio and Moss Mercedes-Benz W196R Streamliner is soon to be sold. Glen Waddington visits Stuttgart for an exclusive insight into its past

THE SILVER MACHINES • Motorheads have long been fascinated by the racing cars of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union – and where they ended up

WITHIN THESE WALLS, MAGIC HAPPENS • Behind the unprepossessing façade of a former dance hall, for five decades Ric Wood Motorsport has been turning Capris, Calibras, Holdens and GT-Rs into winners

BLOWN AWAY • Force-fed hot hatches are ten-a-penny – but not this super-rare, supercharged trio. Octane hangs on tight to the wheels of the Mini Cooper S Works GP, Toyota Yaris GRMN and the VW Polo G40

HOT HATCH MARKET MOVEMENTS

Fifty years a supercar • 1987 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV

OCTANE’S FLEET • These are the cars – and ’bikes – run by Octane’s staff and contributors

Range finder • 1978 & 1980 Range Rovers

So long, Subaru •...