This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating 20 years since the first event in 1993. Unbelievably, the target audience for the inaugural Festival was a mere 5,000, but to the utter amazement of Lord March and others involved, more than 25,000 people turned up. However, many of those who attended...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was still a kid. Stan won the 1954 New Zealand International Grand Prix, four 1955 Victorian Trophies at Fisherman’s Bend, Melbourne, became the 1958 Australian Gold Star Champion and won the...
Mike Lawrence In 1957 Maserati was supreme. Fangio won the F1 Championship and the Maserati 450S came within an ace...
1990 Leyton House CG901/3Photo: Mike Jiggle Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed...
Accomplished American historic racer John Delane recently notched up another remarkable racing achievement by winning both the Class A FIA Historic Formula One Championship and the FIA Lurani Formula Junior Championship for 2007. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that Delane has now won five FIA Historic Formula One...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
The largest collection of Aston Martin racing cars ever to gather on a single track will meet at Brands Hatch...
Alberto Ascari Ayrton SennaPhoto: Maureen Magee 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things get a little stale, or as a response when it is perceived that the public is losing interest. Other times it’s driven by sponsors...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of 1984 there really was only one car to choose—the Ralt RT3. Designed by Ron Tauranac, the Ralt RT3 was a class apart. From its first appearance in 1979 to its...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year hiatus, and among the events supporting the featured contest on Le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was an appearance by the cars and drivers of Historic Grand Prix. HGP’s members present cars...
South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of...
While often overlooked in the annals of motorsport history, from 1963 to 1988 the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) provided some epic production car racing. In its early days, the ETCC was an affordable entry point for young drivers to hone their craft. Future stars like Baghetti, Ickx and Whitmore...
January 2011 In the L&M F5000 Championship round at Michigan International Speedway on May 20, 1973, Peter Gethin raced this Chevron...
November 2016 Here’s a nice shot taken in the pits at Brands Hatch before the non-championship F1 Race of Champions...
The Gunnar Nilsson Trophy was a non-championship BMW Procar Series event held at Donington Park on June 4, 1979, where Toine Hezemans finished 5th in the Alimpo BMW M1. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
George Follmer has been named Grand Marshal of the inaugural Barber Historics at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park in honor of...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small-block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race organizers...