With this month’s Profile of Jackie Stewart’s BRM P261, we thought a deeper look into the workings of British Racing...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete, with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Achille Varzi, in the Alfa Romeo 158 “Alfetta”, set the 2nd fastest time for Heat 1 behind the Alfa 158 of Carlo Trossi.Photo: Ed McDonough Collection Motor racing, especially at the Grand Prix level, had reached a frenzied pace before World War II but was brought to a halt in...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
Philip Young: Founder and GM of the Endurance Rally Association The second part of our interview with Philip Young, head of the Endurance Rally Association (ERA)—a motor club he founded just over 25 years ago which organizes some of today’s most inspiring classic rallies—was to be a celebration of his latest...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Jack...
The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. Fifteen races for historic cars and motorcycles were just a...
As we’ve said in this space many times before, thank heaven for the Internet’s ability to share one man’s obsession with the rest of us! This month’s featured Web site is another one of those obscure personal obsessions that turns out to be an interesting diversion/resource for the rest of...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near Derby it wasn’t too far for him to travel. While at this first meeting, purely as a spectator, I think he became intoxicated with the sights, smells and aura of...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an “Ancien Pilotes” demonstration race in the late 1960s. Photo: J Pearson Archive Aspiration...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car can...
I don’t usually spend too much time on preamble prior to getting into the nitty-gritty of the subject car. However,...
Great cars from across motorsport history will gather at Shelsley Walsh for the Classic Nostalgia meeting on July 17-18. This year...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his drawings for a straight-8 1,500-cc voiturette to the Alfa headquarters near Milan back in January 1936. And as the design began to take shape, Alfa placed on standby drivers like...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with them winning a World Championship. In the early years of the modern Grand Prix series it was the Italian Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari teams—with occasional intrusions by the German...
The Albi Grand Prix; Albi, France, July 16, 1939 Arthur Dobson in the very fast E.R.A. E-type which set pole...
Chairman, Endurance Rally Association Fred Gallagher Fred Gallagher grew up in a part of Northern Ireland where those noted for...
There is a small town in Lincolnshire, England, which became the home of not one, not two, but three major racing car manufacturers. Bourne (pop 15,000) a small market town up in “Bomber County” as Lincolnshire was known during WWII (due to the large number of bomber bases built on...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport for only a handful of years, and for three of those he was employed as a factory driver for Mercedes-Benz. This alone makes it extremely difficult to “get your hands”...
