At its recent AGM, the British Racing Drivers Club unanimously elected Derek Warwick as its new president, replacing former F1...
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...
Hermann Paul Müller’s Auto Union heads into Schwantz Curve in 1938.Photo: Simon Lewis Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near Derby it wasn’t too far for him to travel. While at this first meeting, purely as a spectator, I think he became intoxicated with the sights, smells and aura of...
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as...
Champion rally driver Paddy Hopkirk MBE (above, Jakob Ebrey photo courtesy of BRDC) was elected president of the British Racing...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and was the father of my school friend. So, I think I knew Frank from when I was around 10 years old. To give him his proper title, it’s...
Ian Ashley Lola T330 F5000. Photo: BRDC Archive Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with...
Vintage Racecar was immensely saddened to hear of the passing of “Gentleman” Jack Sears following a long fight with cancer....
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very much grassroots level, who championed the cause for a revival of motorsport immediately following the cessation of hostilities. Alec Francis Rivers-Fletcher, known simply as “Rivers,” who once worked under the...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in October. Rolt had served the maximum nine-year term for a director, including two three-year stints as Chairman. Grant is known within motor sport for his...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
The seventh running of the very popular Walter Hayes Trophy for Kent-engined Formula Ford cars takes place at Silverstone from...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of the magazine Howden Ganley, will be sharing his many experiences and insights with us every month in our “Last Lap” column. While most of our readers will know that Howden...
It is with sadness that we report the loss of British Le Mans–winner, Peter Jopp. Jopp began racing in the...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the team during the beginning, middle and end of the marque’s history in Grand Prix motor racing. The first of these interviews is with Richard “Dick” Salmon, now in his 92nd...
Much of Brawn’s success has come courtesy of Michael Schumacher, seen here in 1992 at Spa, winning his first Grand...
From the British Racing Drivers Club- It is with great regret that we must inform Members of the death yesterday...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport and British Racing Drivers Club member, Sam Tingle, who died just before Christmas last year. Although synonymous with South Africa, Tingle was, in fact, born in Manchester, England. His racing...
It seems that we may have had the last Grand Prix at Silverstone. There was a time when I lived...
Damon Hill OBE, president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and the 1996 Formula One World Champion, joined Richard ...
The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a...
Dr. J. Dudley Benjafield founded the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) in 1928 as a social club for British racing...
Photo: BRDC Archive My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I had to get into Grand Prix racing in the 1960s. The Cooper Car Company, so famous in Formula One in the late 1950s and early 1960s for changing the shape...