Equipe Classic Racing is planning to launch a new competition class in 2018, especially for Pre-1963 GT and Production racing...
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Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
Martin Stretton prevailed in a tense first FIA Masters Historic Formula One race at Brands Hatch, the Tyrrell 012 driver...
In the late 1960s—1969 I think—I started racing motorbikes in local races in Belgium. Not too powerful machines, just 50-cc, but it was a start. My car-racing debut was not until 1972. I won the Teddy Pillete Trophy for Formula Vee cars. I stayed with the formula, and had a...
I didn’t think it was a very good thing for a woman to drive those open and powerful cars of...
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Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally dominate his life. This passion not only took him away from school and University study to follow a dream, but also from his family and his Italian home. Motor racing...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was...
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1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the Tojeiro-Buick registration number TSU 719 was closed. A quick turn of the key to the right and a large pump of the throttle and it did! Instantly aware of the...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
The name Robin Donovan may not mean much to most, but this man has quietly gone about his business and...
Bev BondPhoto: Pete Austin I was born with a competitive spirit, my father represented Great Britain at Speedway, my mother and two of my aunts rode Speedway bikes, too. I suppose Speedway should have been my sport, on the contrary, I preferred four wheels and made my mark in kart...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer...
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Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson...
Brands Hatch, on the southern outskirts of London, is a classic Grand Prix circuit in the mold of Spa-Francorchamps, Watkins...
Two new venues and a return to popular historic festivals give shape to Masters Historic Racing’s European calendar for 2018,...
When I was young, growing up in Spain was very difficult for lovers of motor racing. The Spanish were then...
During the Brands Hatch Six Hours on April 13, 1969, Chris Amon comes up to Druids, his lone Ferrari 312P complete with all sorts of aero devices to help keep the nose down. Amon had Pedro Rodriquez as his co-driver, but they were no match for a gaggle of Porsche...
Colin Chapman Mike Spence 1 Ayrton Senna dies in a crash during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, Italy...
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November 2016 Here’s a nice shot taken in the pits at Brands Hatch before the non-championship F1 Race of Champions on March 20, 1977. This was the first appearance of the Mike Pilbeam-designed F1 car—entered as a LEC but often referred to as a Pilbeam—for David Purley. Purley would finish...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum has organized...
Spring is in the air and the dawn of a new season of racing with the Historic Racing Drivers Club beckons, the first rounds scheduled for Silverstone next weekend. Prior to the racing, two full days of HRDC testing at Goodwood took place (above, Jeff Bloxham photo), beginning on Monday...
