I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing career I did have a go at rallying and circuit racing. It was soon apparent I wasn’t going to be too successful at either discipline. To cement my decision to...
Bronte, Canada September 3, 2017 1934 Austin Racecar 750-cc side-valve.Photo: Bob Harrington Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
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Photo: Mike Jiggle Allon White Sports Cars was founded nearly a century ago in the village of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, just...
Of the major Western automobile manufacturing nations, England may have been the most staid when it came to streamlining and...
The largest collection of Aston Martin racing cars ever to gather on a single track will meet at Brands Hatch July 6-7 to mark the British brand’s centenary. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Aston Martin, and more than a hundred of the marque’s racing cars,...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful...
Instead of a single featured marque for the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts’ 2012 Pacific Northwest Historics at Pacific Raceways...
In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the coming London Olympics, Rodeo Drive became decidedly British on June 17, when the annual Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance celebrated their “THE BRITISH ARE COMING!” theme, with over 30,000 people in attendance. As the 2012 featured marque, Aston Martin was the centerpiece...
The annual Autumn Italian Car Day has a new venue for 2005. It will be held at the Heritage Motor...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
For three short years, in the early 1960s, Christabel Carlisle, now Lady Watson, was the name on the lips of everyone who attended race meetings in the UK. At that time, it was controversial for women to race cars. However, from out of nowhere she was an instant success. During...
South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age...
Hermann Paul Müller’s Auto Union heads into Schwantz Curve in 1938.Photo: Simon Lewis Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound of vintage motor racing. The circuit closed last year for major landscaping work instigated by new leaseholders whose ambitious plan to extend and re-profile the facility and wrest the British...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
October 2016 From the British Grand Prix at Aintree on July 18, 1959, we see Carroll Shelby trying hard with...
Formula 3 was a superb training ground for many British drivers in the early 1950s. For this sunny International Daily Express Trophy Race Meeting at Silverstone on May 9, 1953, the front row was also the finishing order! Don Parker (#23) started from pole in his Kieft and went on...
In the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 19, 1975, American sports car ace Mark Donohue drove an excellent...
Ronnie Peterson drove the Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler in the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, but was an early retirement...
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...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
“My name is Casey; and I’m a recovering Triumph owner.” Or at least that’s how I’ve felt for a number of years. They say you can’t change where you come from, and I suppose that adage is as true in cars as it is in life. My first “collector” car...
The British Grand Prix; Silverstone, June 20, 1963. Graham Hill really trying hard with his BRM 57 absolutely on the...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in the most spectacular way possible, supporting the British Grand Prix, July 6-8. HFO Chairman Dan Collins said, “We received an invitation and, of course, jumped at the chance. We have...