Hagerty’s YouTube channel and presenter Henry Catchpole explore a 1985 Porsche 959 prototype that laid the foundation for the iconic...
The greatest version of the 959 is, and always will be, the Rothman’s liveried Paris-Dakar racing version. Built in 1985...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered...
When drivers are asked about their greatest racecar, many look at cars that have won races or given them great...
Brazilian Nelson Soutomaior, perhaps fortunately for race commentators, adopted his mother’s maiden name of Piquet when he arrived in Europe in 1977. Within a decade the fun-loving driver had won no less than three World Championships (1981, 1983 and 1987) with three different engine manufacturers (Ford, BMW and Honda). Unfortunately,...
In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
Mike Lawrence We are seeing some quite extraordinary prices paid for certain cars, and some people have recalled the late...
In 1980, people laughed when they heard Audi was developing a four-wheel-drive rally car. Hadn’t Ford tried that with their Capri 10 years earlier and drawn a blank? But the detractors stopped laughing when an Audi Quattro won the 1981 Janner Rally in Austria by 20 minutes. And they were...
You’re familiar with the Porsche 962, the dominant Le Mans sports car. But, have you seen the 962-200? This rarely...
My greatest racecar has to come from my Formula One experience. Every part of an F1 car is designed to...
The Monterey Reunion saw epic battles across car categories, including Trans-Am, IMSA, Group C, and classic Formula 1, at Laguna Seca. A highlight was the intense competition between the 2006 Riley Daytona Prototype and the Leyton House Porsche 962 for the lead which you can see in the video....
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to...
The first-generation Mazda Miata, also known as the MX-5 or Eunos Roadster, was launched in 1989 and quickly gained popularity...
Ayrton Senna started 13th on the grid and thrived in the wet conditions, making it all the way up to 2nd place by lap 19. As the rain began to fall more heavily, he was reeling in leader Alain Prost by three seconds per lap. The race was stopped at...
Head-to-head battle between a Jaguar XJR-5 and Porsche 962 at Daytona during HSR’s 24-hour vintage event....
An updated version of the Audi Sport Quattro – given the ‘S1’ moniker – was introduced at the end of...
Few race cars are as universally acclaimed as the Porsche 956. The car is a brilliantly engineered aesthetic wonder, born of another round of FISA changes that ultimately resulted in the emergence of several marque innovations. Before the debut of the Porsche 956, there were the 935 and 936 prototypes...
High quality footage of Ayrton Senna during his qualifying session for 1986 San Marino GP in a Lotus 98T, a powerhouse...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
900-horsepower 1984 Lancia LC2 goes full throttle at Brands Hatch in UK....
In 1983 Porsche produced a stunning one-off road car for TAG owner Mansour Ojjeh. Based on a 934 chassis, it...
Experience the incredible and wild sound of Jean Ragnotti’s Renault 5 Maxi Turbo “Group B” rally car as it tears through the 1985 Tour de Corse Rally and won the race!...
I’ve driven many racing cars during my career and, for me, a great racecar has to have exceptional acceleration and...
The Lotus 87 was a Formula One car built by the Lotus team in 1981 for use in the World...
Nigel Mansell pushes the glorious 3.5-litre V12 Ferrari 639 up the FOS hill....
My favorite Williams Formula One car, I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
The 1988 season was one of those years when I was truly up against it, my wife was pregnant with our daughter and I desperately needed to race. All other options had failed, so I went back to my roots in England and spoke with some teams I’d previously raced...