Brands Hatch, England May 27–28, 2007 Norman Grimshaw’s ex-AlecPoole 1,293-cc Wolseley Hornet gets inside a Mustang.Photo: Peter Collins Become a...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning...
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.” It was March 1968, I was 10 years old, and in the pits at Brands Hatch during a test session in preparation for the BOAC 500. My father had entered...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was still a Formula One newcomer. The Toleman team had been struggling for three years and had only begun to get a few results toward the end of 1983. While the...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden anniversary of the Formula Junior. Special Formula Junior races will be held in New Zealand (January, Pukekoe); Australia (February, Philip Island); Italy (June 6–8, Monza); Britain (June 28–29, Brands Hatch...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
The ex–Geoghegan 1960 Lotus Elite The ex–Chamberlain 1960 Lotus Elite The 1967 Lotus Elite Twin Cam No matter what year...
Belgian, Christian Vanhee, will challenge the Grand Prix Masters Series in a car that could qualify as the first Ron...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer...
I can think of very few businesses—aside from magazine publishing—where the odds are more stacked against you than being a racecar manufacturer. Your product is multifaceted and technologically complicated, yet you have usually less than 12 months available to go from new design to finished product. Production requires expensive and...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if all were racing identical cars. The idea for this low budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for...
It is with sadness that we report the loss of British Le Mans–winner, Peter Jopp. Jopp began racing in the...
The passing of any legend will always generate a fresh wave of interest in his or her biographical history, and Phil Hill is no different. As you can see from this issue of VR, many are the tributes offered for America’s first World Champion racer. Some readers, however, may wish...
The Historic Sports Car Club’s Derek Bell Trophy will have a new look for 2009, following confirmation that MSA championship...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an extramarital affair, he was abandoned by his mother and cared for by Jacob’s wife. Following her death in an accident in 1949, Jackie was taken to the United States where...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...