Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered by American production-line V-8 engines of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race organizers, and team owners...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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 V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheel racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2 was...
From 1964–1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
During 2016 the UK’s Historic Sports Car Club celebrates 50 years since it’s founding. Looked upon by many as “Mr. HSCC,” the man at the top of the organization, CEO Grahame White, has held the post for some 20 years. Recently, VR’s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, sat down with him...
Joel E. Finn, author, racer and computer industry pioneer, died January 28 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 78. The...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to raise funds to supplement the Center’s budget. The latest of these cars was a 1984 Corvette originally owned by Jim Gilmore, long-time friend and sponsor of A.J. Foyt. Last November’s...
Peter Collins examines the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Derek Bennett and his Chevron Cars. Enzo Ferrari was right...
1970 Nomad-BRM Mk3 After the war years in the UK, a certain Churchillian spirit prevailed, which left many with an...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations, made my Le Mans debut…not necessarily in that order! I can only now reveal that it is possible to race at Le Mans with one eye! This may come as...
Colin Chapman Mike Spence 1 Ayrton Senna dies in a crash during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, Italy (1994). 2 Driver Henri Toivonen and codriver Sergio Cresta are killed when their Lancia Delta S4 Group B rally car crashes into a tree and bursts into flame during the...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives each country the choice of approved chassis and engines, each one limited to 150 bhp, but everyone runs the same kit within the national series. One-spec formulae, I hate ’em....
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra....
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his name racing automobiles. They weren’t just any automobiles either, but the fastest most prestigious racing cars in the world. He was a race winner in Formula 1 and the original...