Howden Ganley A recent visit to the famous Donington circuit in England, for the launch of a wonderful book about...
Prince Bira in his E.R.A. pursues Hans Ruesch’s Alfa Romeo 8C35 up the hill to South Tower corner. Ruesch won...
Photo: Chris Mann This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard Attwood’s Cooper, had impressed the MRP gang and for 1963 I was offered a full season with them in a brand-new car. The team had done a deal with Lola...
February 2018 The Crystal Palace Trophy, Crystal Palace, June 11, 1962. At the start, it’s Roy Salvadori on pole in...
1970 Nomad-BRM Mk3 After the war years in the UK, a certain Churchillian spirit prevailed, which left many with an...
My racing started during the spring of 1962 at the Goodwood racing circuit, I was racing a Lotus Elite. I went on to drive an Elan and then a Ferrari 250LM with Peter Clarke. It was in the Ferrari that I did my first Daytona 24 Hours. I shared the...
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Major Anthony Peter Roylance Rolt, Military Cross and Bar, had a philosophy. After surviving the Second World War, in which he almost died several times and won two Military Crosses, one of Britain’s highest awards for bravery, he reasoned that the rest of his life would be a bonus. So,...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
For the Anerley Trophy Formula Junior race at Crystal Palace on June 3, 1963, the Start of the first heat...
The Sevenoaks and District Car Club’s efforts to uphold the heritage of London’s Crystal Palace as a venue for motorsport continued in style at the end of May when the organization played host to the fourth annual Motorsport at the Palace event. A huge entry of more than 200 cars...
A number of years ago, in the early days of Vintage Racecar when I think we were still in “black...
Sydenham Trophy Race, Crystal Palace, May 20, 1939. Prince Bira in his E.R.A. chases Hans Ruesch’s Alfa Romeo 8C35 up the hill to South Tower corner. Ruesch won his preliminary heat from Bira, but the “eight stone of dynamite from Siam” (as the program called him) won the final at...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands...
It’s been a long time coming, but Crystal Palace will once again play host to a national motorsport event with...
December 2009 Prince Bira of Siam was an excellent prewar amateur driver who could often give the professionals a run for their money. Here he enthusiastically corners his E.R.A. during the Crystal Palace Cup race on July 1, 1939. He won the first heat but had to settle for 3rd...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar...
Vincenzo Lancia Keith Duckworth 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim...
I guess the best period in motor racing for me was when I managed to have my first drives in Formula 1. That came about because I knew Paul Emery. I had put an entry in myself for the Brussels Grand Prix in April 1962 for a Lotus. The Emeryson...
What was the first race-meeting you ever went to? For me it was Brands Hatch on Boxing Day 1965. Even...
October 2005 The Marvelous Mechanical Designs of Harry A. Miller By Gordon Elliot White Another in Iconografix’s series of photo...
