The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
Lotus 72—1970–75 By Pete Lyons Foreword by Emerson Fittipaldi Longtime readers of VR&R will be well acquainted with the...
Emerson Fittipaldi, with the Fittipaldi FD04 entered by his older brother Wilson, runs through the Swimming Pool complex on his way to finishing in sixth place. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving...
A 1929 Duesenberg J/SJ Convertible and a 1963 Ferrari 250/275P won the Best In Show honors on Saturday, March 10,...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created 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...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, at the Golf Club of Amelia Island on...
Masters Historic Racing staged a pair of Formula One races last weekend, the first the European season finale at Estoril, Portugal, the second a support round at Formula One’s United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The Estoril contest proved contentious, as first heat...
Winning the 1970 Monaco Formula Three race was seen as my ticket to a Grand Prix future. I’d made my...
October 2017 Matra Racing DVD, The Rebirth Many years ago I was drawn to the vibrancy of the Matra pit...
More than 14,200 motoring enthusiasts at the Footman James Sywell Classic Pistons and Props enjoyed a rare treat when the Leyton House Formula One car, designed by Adrian Newey, and Emerson Fittipaldi’s 1994 Penske PC23 Indycar (above, Kary Jiggle photo) stormed up the runway of Sywell Aerodrome. Event Director Tom Siddall...
This year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrated the 60th anniversary of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rather than a featured marque....
The announcement came late last week that two-time World Champion Mika Hakkinen would substitute for the originally scheduled Jenson Button...
Emerson Fittipaldi, double Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and 1989 U.S. Indycar National Champion, will be the honoree for the 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11, 2018, at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida. “Emerson Who?” was a question widely asked after the then...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The others won eight Formula One World Championships between them, but even with 11 GP victories to his credit, Felipe hasn’t made it yet. He almost did in a 2008 mind...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
Two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi (above, Roger Dixon photo), who also won a pair of Indy 500s and...
After some 50 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 Championship for Drivers, in the world’s most technically...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
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...
The 1972 Lotus Elan Plus 2S first supplied to the late Formula One driver Ronnie Peterson is one of the...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation has announced a pair of inductees for this year’s class at its Auto Racing Hall...
Jackie Stewart leads the way during the 1973 Monaco GP in the iconic Tyrrell 006, followed by his close friend and teammate François Cevert. Stewart went on to win by 1.5 seconds from Emerson Fittipaldi; Cevert finished 4th after suffering a puncture on lap two. This was Stewart’s 25th career...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African could become a Formula One World Champion. Not even their crystal ball, though, could have predicted how: it was when driving a Ferrari 312T4 at Monza, the holiest of holies...
