To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Sir Jack Brabham’s third World Championship, artist Caldersmith created this multi-media work as cover...
This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille...
Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham’s youngest son, David, having won back the rights to the Brabham name in 2012, has recently launched a new web site chronicling the exploits of three generations of family drivers, as well as 30 years as a car constructor and Formula One team. Become...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach, Brian Redman remains one of our sport’s treasures. A lifelong racer, he claimed 18 major international endurance race victories in a succession of Fords, Porsches, Ferraris and BMWs, and won...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
The man who held honorary SCCA Competition License No. 1, Ohioan Chuck Dietrich, has died at the age of 88. A two-time SCCA National Champion—G Modified in 1963 with a Bobsy SR2-Ford, and Formula B in 1967 with a McLaren M4B—Dietrich began racing in 1948 with an MG TC. In...
On Sunday July 28, at the Inn at St. John’s, in Plymouth, Michigan, two stunning vehicles were crowned Best of...
Steve Davis has emerged as the overall champion of the 2010 F5000 Revival Race Series on the strength of taking...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed a whole racing car must draw up a new mount for an F1 World Champion. Constructed clandestinely in an old woodshed, the machine proves so fast that it sets a...
Pete Lyons Our reigning World Champion has forced us to think, once again, about sportsmanship in motorsport. Whether or not...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of...
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...
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This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Rod has semi-retired there after his championship-winning career, including toppling the Unser dynasty from Pikes Peak in the United States. Photo: Mark Dunstan What started five...
Berger drove the Benetton B197 to pole and victory at the 1997 German Grand Prix.Photo: Jim Hatfield The world held...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be...
In 2007 I attended the Press Day prior to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. You can be a passenger in a drive up the hill, but there was the new rally stage, designed by Hannu Mikkola, which was a proper forest stage. I staked my place, so I had first...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
The 1936 Bugatti Type 57G was also known as “The Tank” and it won Le Mans in 1939, just weeks...
Here’s a sure bet: a lot of what you know about the Mille Miglia, and most of how you feel about it, came through the writings of a short, towering genius of a journalist named Denis Jenkinson. Can there be any racing fan who has not thrilled to the epic...
Photo: Art Evans Gildred & Friend Dear Casey, I very much enjoyed the article about Ted Gildred. I learned some things about my friend that I didn’t know. His experiences with Juan Fangio in Argentina reminded me of my own. I spent most of 1968 in South America shooting movies;...
Historics or Hysterics? Dear Editor, Bravo Harlan Halsey! A letter—actually a mini-article—over a page in length and I agree with all...
Nick Padmore, Greg Thornton, Julian Thomas & Calum Lockie and Keith Ahlers & Billy Bellinger have been confirmed as the...
One of the legendary 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix cars raced by five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio will be offered for sale at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on Friday July 12 at Goodwood House in Chichester, Sussex, and is expected to establish new records for cars...