1970 Nomad-BRM Mk3 After the war years in the UK, a certain Churchillian spirit prevailed, which left many with an...
My racing started during the spring of 1962 at the Goodwood racing circuit, I was racing a Lotus Elite. I...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Unless you’ve somehow managed to live completely “off the grid” for the past few months, by now you’ve likely seen the footage online of Jules Bianchi’s stomach-churning crash in the October 4th running of the Japanese Grand Prix. In short, on lap 46—in a driving downpour brought...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that lasted 20 years, has died of heart failure at his Florida home at the age of 71. Gunn began racing on the Club level in 1965, winning the SCCA’s SEDiv...
July 2010 During the Spa-Francorchamps 750km Race on May 4, 1975, Henri Pescarolo extracts full speed from his Alfa Romeo...
1968 Alfa Romeo T33/2 “What goes around comes around.” That, I believe, is a largely English way of referring to...
March 2010 The Targa Florio; Sicily, May 4, 1969. “VIVA L’ALFA” say the words painted on the road as the Alfa...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered by American production-line V-8 engines of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race organizers, and team owners...
The familiar trademark Marlboro Stetson was bobbing about in the pit lane at the Mores circuit in Sardinia, Italy, in...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
In 1967, sports prototype racing was going through one of its golden eras, with plenty of entries and a wonderful driver lineup for the world championship series, which consisted of races in North America and throughout Europe. Seven different manufacturers contested the title with five of them winning races that...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
May 2006 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 By Peter Collins & Ed McDonough Of all the postwar, long-distance, sports racing prototypes,...
Vintage Racecar’s European Editor Ed McDonough and photographer Peter Collins, co-authors of the new Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, were presented with an award for the book on March 4 by Scuderia del Portello, the historic racing division of Alfa Romeo. At an awards ceremony at the Alfa Romeo Museum...
Ferdinand Porsche Cale Yarborough 1 Stefan Bellof dies from inuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Alfa Romeo’s place at the heart of motor racing for more than 90 years has not just been down to...
