Home to the legendary Bathurst 1000 race, the Mount Panorama circuit in New South Wales is actually a public road.

The 1,000-yard course of the historic Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb may take less than a minute to run, but it’s an experience not to be forgotten.

This classic route across France is a celebration of gallic guts and glory. 

Start your engines! Detour is in pole position to serve up some of the best motor racing themed road trips in the world.

The two-time World Rally champ now spends most of his time in the passenger seat, but when the mood takes him he still takes the occasion detour to the forest tracks around his Swedish home.

Like all his Formula 1 peers Mika Salo only knows one way to drive: flat out. Even when that’s taking a road trip across South Africa.

After eight hours and 20 minutes Detour ended up exactly where we began. That’s because we took part in the IndyKA 500 – an epic endurance race at the Brands Hatch race circuit.

The tragically-short life of Scotland’s first Formula 1 World Champion is celebrated at this carefully-curated museum near his home in the Borders.

Play Fantasy Formula 1 by driving these public road Grand Prix circuits past and present — and you don’t need even need a race licence to lap them.

Steve McQueen: The Mans and Le Mans leaves you in no doubt that McQueen was one stubborn son of a bitch.

The cars are the obvious stars, but the most fascinating part of the Ferrari Museum is the exhibit dedicated to the man himself.

As one of the most impressive collections of landmark cars in Porsche’s motorsport history, it would have been a crime for the Brumos Collection to live behind closed doors. But that’s exactly where it used to reside - until now. Detour enjoyed an early tour of the outstanding car collection.