Silverstone, Northants, UK October 15-16, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Arguably, one of the core tenets of vintage and historic racing is the notion of the rolling time frame, that is to say with each passing year, a new model-year or era of racecar becomes “classic.” With the passage of time, today’s modern weapon will eventually become tomorrow’s historic racing...
Saying someone is/was the world’s greatest racing driver is a mug’s game. So many circumstances —not least of all technology—change...
November 2016 Here’s a nice shot taken in the pits at Brands Hatch before the non-championship F1 Race of Champions...
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...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
In this profile we explore the life and afterlife of a more modern Formula One car. Indeed, what does happen to old Formula One cars? I mean those multi-million dollar hi-tech racers of not too many years ago. Each and every year the dozen, or so, competing teams produce a...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
I’m always a little bit shocked when I see the worlds of modern and historic racing intersect. Recently, I was...
The first time I recall sitting in a racing car was as a child at the BRM works at Bourne, England, this would be in the late 1970s. It was one of the then-current F1 cars, the Rotary Watches Stanley BRM P207. This would be toward the end of the...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand...
Following a successful championship year in Formula Three in 2001—winning the British F3, Masters of F3 and the celebrated Macau...
This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly smitten by the very same car. W.J. Ziegler was born in 1911 and quickly realized that his life would be immersed in cars. He was the first student of his...
Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX October 7-8, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
With its revised and corrected rear suspension, the car is a blast to drive especially when steered with the throttle. Photo:...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number of 11 French national motorcycle racing championships, in three years, by the time he was 28. After that, he made a profession out of being a champion of many forms...
As I write these notes, the 2015 season is coming to an end with just a few more Formula One...
The author’s primary impression of the car is of the need to keep the revs up so that the boost,...
Like his uncle Gianni Agnelli, Ludovico Scarfiotti was a suave, well-mannered gentleman who was no stranger to the privileges of wealth. He was, perhaps, no Grand Prix star—except on one gifted day in 1966—but he turned himself into an immensely capable hillclimber and sports car racer. Born in Turin in...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
The Gunnar Nilsson Trophy was a non-championship BMW Procar Series event held at Donington Park on June 4, 1979, where Toine...
My favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers World Championship. I know he only won the one race with the car, the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon, but he beat people like Piquet driving a Brabham, who...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Seen here at Monaco, Laffite scored two of his six Grand Prix wins in 1981, taking his favorite Talbot Ligier JS17-Matra...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and the Moneypenny series there are more than three dozen. Anthony Horowitz has been commissioned to write a new novel, due in September, which will be set in the glamorous world...
George Follmer has been named Grand Marshal of the inaugural Barber Historics at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park in honor of...
Photo: BRDC Archive My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I...
1990 Leyton House CG901/3Photo: Mike Jiggle Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed the car, Adrian Newey, as the car itself. It was Irish novelist James Joyce who said, “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the...
