Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
When he contests the 24 Hours Nürburgring this June, sharing a car with his sons Johannes and Ferdinand, Hans-Joachim Stuck...
June 2011 Honoring Gardner Photo: Maureen Magee Dear Editor, As usual Vintage Racecar had the most comprehensive obituary of a British motorsport figure in the form of the late Derek Gardner. There are a couple of little points I would like to add to Mike Jiggle’s very good tribute. Tyrrell...
I’m celebrating 25 years of motor racing, and I say this without counting the years I spent karting. It’s difficult...
Formula One at Watkins Glen By Michael Argetsinger From its dustcover image of the opening lap of the 1967 United...
Let me get my bias out of the way, right up front—I’m not a NASCAR fan. Though I’ve tried at various times to convince myself that I like NASCAR—in the same way that I occasionally try to convince myself that I like Brussell Sprouts—I just can’t do it. So this...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
Hans-Joachim Stuck leads a pack of FVs and FSVs at the Daytona Golden Anniversary celebration.Photo: Bruce Lancaster Formula Vee celebrated its 50th birthday at Daytona in late January, with a parade of classic Formula Vee and Formula Super Vee cars prior to the Rolex 24. Many of the cars were...
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer, taking home the coveted golden trophies for his work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a passing conversation at the Goodwood Revival someone said to me words to the effect that it was the saloon car race there that made the event—all the rest, including the...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...