1968 Lolita MkI & the 1969 Lolita MkII My first car was a British Motor Corporation Mini. I had just turned...
Jim Clark is remembered for his ability to drive and win in all types of cars and series, Formula 1,...
Jimmy Clark Biography Jimmy Clark was born in Kilmany, in the county of Fife to a Scottish farming family, roots that would stay with him for the rest of his life. He was the only son in a family of four daughters. His early racing exploits were initially met by...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Pat Moss-Carlsson, the younger sister of Stirling and wife of Erik, died after a long illness on October 14. She was 73. Both first-class show jumpers, it was Stirling who taught Pat to drive and that lit the fuse on an explosive 21-year driving career that saw her win the...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
In 1962, Ford of Britain, created a prototype of a short wheelbase Cortina designed for the American market. The one-off Saxon Cortina was sent to the United States for corporate evaluation, but was ill received in Dearborn, and as such was eventually destroyed. But then, in 2012, Briton Colin Ginn...
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.”...
I’m always a little bit shocked when I see the worlds of modern and historic racing intersect. Recently, I was...
It’s the end of October as I write this, which is fitting, because I’m being haunted…by one of my former racecars. I received an email from a friend, “Hey, your old Lotus has just been listed on eBay.” Unable to resist the temptation, I logged on and scoured through a...
Starting his career in the early ’60s behind the wheel of a Mini, John Fitzpatrick quickly worked his way to...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
Tim McGrane is the Executive Director of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in Danville, California. VR: How did you get started in cars? I assume as a child. You grew up in the UK, correct? TM: I did. I grew up in Kent, southeast England about two miles from Brands Hatch....
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the names of Leo and Ian (aka Pete) Geoghegan became known thoughout almost every...
By the early 1960s, Ford had carved a very specific niche for itself in the UK. Having built low cost,...
It’s all change for the Mille Miglia Commemoration and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti. The Mille Miglia has been brought in-house and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti has come under new management, after being resurrected on a number of occasions by different organizers. For the last five years, a consortium...
Formula Ford, as unlikely as it may seem now, brought me closer to being on the inside of professional motor...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
The International Britax Touring Car Race; Silverstone, July 10, 1965. Oversteer and understeer. Jack Sears and Sir John Whitmore with their Lotus-Ford Cortinas show why saloon cars were so much fun for the spectators (and for the photographers!). Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road,...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing cars with identical engines. The idea for this low-budget formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at...
Here we are at the Motor 6 Hour Saloon Car Race at Brands Hatch on July 6, 1963. This Ford Cortina...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
Monday March 2, 2015 was indeed a sad day for Australian historic motor sport enthusiasts when Leo Geoghegan (78), one of its icons succumbed after a long battle with prostate cancer. Geoghegan started his racing career in 1956 behind the wheel of an early model Holden sedan and spent his...
As many as 1,787 Fords took over the grounds of the National Motor Museum for Beaulieu’s biggest Simply Ford yet as 3,080 participants...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...