April 2007 BRM V16 By Karl Ludvigsen The history of motorsport is rife with exotic machines and spectacular flops, but...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
The Formula Junior Category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria to being Porsche’s man in the USA, to his involvement in virtually every facet of Penske Racing. Born just before the Second World War in Vienna, Austria, Kainhofer became involved...
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars...
In early April, I made my way to Las Vegas for the inaugural Champ car Vegas Grand Prix. This new...
1976 Holden Torana L34 A month or so back, Vintage Racecar interviewed Leo Geoghegan, a true icon of Australian motorsport. While Leo may have started his racing career in an early model Holden, he later became a household name from his successes with a series of Lotus open-wheelers. While this...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
At the end of 1969, during the height of the Ferrari-Porsche World Sports Car Championship “wars,” Jo Siffert was wined and dined at Maranello by Enzo Ferrari, who offered him a deal for 1970. But it was not only the bravura of the Swiss in a racing car that interested...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if I was right about that, but I do remember some of its characteristics pretty well. The power range was about a 1,000 revs, maybe 1,200 maximum, and that meant it...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian Grand Prix,” said Gunnar Axel Arvid Nilsson. Nevertheless, he should also be remembered—in the words of Nick Jordan, mechanic to Gunnar’s rival Tony Brise in Formula Atlantic—as “one of the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Motor racing has recently been rocked by espionage scandals, but it was ever thus. In 1929, “Leon Dury” swapped two Millers for three Bugattis, and Ettore suddenly had fresh inspiration. When engineers change teams, they take information with them. That is true of any job; it is called “experience.” As...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from...
Pete Lyons Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. Become a...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
Rubens Barrichello Nigel Mansell 1 Al Holbert drives a Chevrolet-powered March to victory in the IMSA Camel GT race at...
Jack was born on April 2, 1926, and I think it’s appropriate that we all wish him a happy birthday. (I realize you are reading the May edition of Vintage Racecar, but subscribers usually get it in April.) On this occasion, I thought you might be interested in some of...