The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC...
Hermann Paul Müller’s Auto Union heads into Schwantz Curve in 1938.Photo: Simon Lewis Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this year, which focusses on the venue’s pre-war history and the dramatic progress it made in just a few full seasons of...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
Photo: BRDC Archive My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I...
Almost 60 years to the day since his grandparents attended the 1950 British Grand Prix (the inaugural F1 World Championship race), His Royal Highness Prince Andrew the Duke of York, KG, followed in their footsteps, formally opening a major new section of the Silverstone track that represents the first stage...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
Vintage Racecar was asked to play a part in continuing celebrations of 50 Years of the Lister “Knobbly” at the Silverstone Classic. John Pearson organized an impressive parade of 18 Listers between the races at Silverstone. VR’s European Editor, Ed McDonough, was invited to drive Lister founder Brian Lister for...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
From the British Racing Drivers Club- It is with great regret that we must inform Members of the death yesterday...
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) recently announced that Sir Jackie Stewart, president of the famous British racing organization since 2000, will not be seeking re-election as president at the club’s AGM in the Spring of 2006. Sir Jackie said, “By Spring this year I will have been president for...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
Damon Hill OBE, president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and the 1996 Formula One World Champion, joined Richard ...
Much of Brawn’s success has come courtesy of Michael Schumacher, seen here in 1992 at Spa, winning his first Grand Prix with the Benetton B192. Photo: Mike Cotes Whoosh-bang. That sort of gives an impression of Ross Brawn’s 2009 Formula One season. The year of the spectacularly successful, flash in...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an accomplished drummer in the Clay Pigeons jazz band that included Belgian racer Johnny Claes. Leston’s racing career began in the late 1940s driving a Jaguar SS100, but he soon turned...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville,...
The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a...
At its recent AGM, the British Racing Drivers Club unanimously elected Derek Warwick as its new president, replacing former F1 World Champion Damon Hill, OBE, who has held the post since 2006. Warwick won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Peugeot in 1992, and is a former F1 driver with...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at...
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...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
Champion rally driver Paddy Hopkirk MBE (above, Jakob Ebrey photo courtesy of BRDC) was elected president of the British Racing...
Vintage Racecar was immensely saddened to hear of the passing of “Gentleman” Jack Sears following a long fight with cancer. Jack was born into a farming family in Northampton. His love of cars came through his father Stanley’s interest and participation in motoring events. Jack first took part in the...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s...
Dr. J. Dudley Benjafield founded the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) in 1928 as a social club for British racing drivers to welcome fellow racers from overseas, and the club’s first event was a 500-mile race at Brooklands in October of 1929. The Benjafields’s Racing Club takes its name from...