The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
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...
Without doubt, I have to say my greatest racecar is the Jaguar XJR-9 LM that took me, Jan Lammers and...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet Robert Browning wrote “how sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet.” In today’s world, preserving the past for future generations is something that has a...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
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+...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating 20 years since the first event in 1993. Unbelievably, the target audience for...
The Gunnar Nilsson Trophy was a non-championship BMW Procar Series event held at Donington Park on June 4, 1979, where Toine...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that the inaugural United States Vintage Racing National Championship will be held Oct. 25-27, 2013, at the home of the Formula One World Championship United States Grand Prix, the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas. According to both COTA and...
This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly...
The largest collection of Aston Martin racing cars ever to gather on a single track will meet at Brands Hatch...
Villeneuve won four races, including Indy, on his way to the 1995 CART Indycar crown. Photo: John Zimmermann Collection This self-confident Canadian is one of the élite. Only he, Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi have won motor racing’s grand slam, the CART Championship, the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula 1...
Patrick Watts in the Peugeot 406 at Donington in 1997.Photo: Pete Austin From my point of view, a great racecar...
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...
With its revised and corrected rear suspension, the car is a blast to drive especially when steered with the throttle. Photo:...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
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...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC...
In this month’s feature article, we pay tribute to one of Britain’s oldest racing circuits, Donington Park. Founded in 1931...
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...
At Monza on the weekend of June 3–5, the HGPCA will hold three 20-minute heat races, with the third race...
My favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982...
Saying someone is/was the world’s greatest racing driver is a mug’s game. So many circumstances —not least of all technology—change so quickly, so how can anybody possibly say that Tazio Nuvolari was a greater driver than Lewis Hamilton, for instance? Based exclusively on results, however, I feel perfectly safe in...
I’m always a little bit shocked when I see the worlds of modern and historic racing intersect. Recently, I was...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...