Few automobile marques evoke images of style, speed and sports better than the Prancing Horse of Ferrari. Fortunately for motorsports...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 First engine ever designed by Ernst Fuhrmann, the Porsche Type 547 (Carrera), runs in Zuffenhausen for the first time (1953). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
May 2009 Peter Collins: All About the Boy! By Ed McDonough Along with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins...
May 2017 • Sir Jack Brabham, Australia’s three-time F1 World Champion, is to be honored by his homeland with a special commemorative 50¢ coin struck by the Royal Australian Mint. The coin features a likeness of Sir Jack and the Brabham BT19-Repco with which, in 1966, he became the only...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
October 2016 Formula One The Knowledge By David Hayhoe If ever you wanted to study the records of the past 65 years of the Formula One Grand Prix World Championship, then here’s the book that will give you all the information you need. There are always those times when we...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed, held July 11–13, has grown every year since its inception in 1993 and now stands...
The 1982 Porsche 956 was a car that we started with a clean sheet of paper. Everything was new, the monocoque, aerodynamics—which included “ground effect” completely different to that of a Formula One car, the gearbox, everything except the engine, which had proved to be very reliable and no need...
Formula One – All the Races By Roger Smith This mighty 600 page-tome is the Formula One race version of...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
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...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to be when he grew up, and who managed to make his mark in the upper echelons of motor sports with a single organization over a dozen years. That vocation was...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an extramarital affair, he was abandoned by his mother and cared for by Jacob’s wife. Following her death in an accident in 1949, Jackie was taken to the United States where...
The last car ends its cool-off lap, sending one last snap of delicious sound echoing away across the raceway. This...
Robert Daley’s name is pretty much unknown in racing circles these days, but he was at Zandvoort that afternoon in...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida (1974). 2 Alpine Renault A110s finish 1-2-3 in the Tour de Course rally in France, with Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Michel Vial on board...
Race Retro, powered by Motor Sport, will pay tribute to the Turbocharged era of Formula 1 in the Motor Sport...
As we cloased for press with this issue, it was announced that ’60s Italian flash-in-the-pan ATS (Automobili Turismo e Sport)...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone to offer me a drive in one. My job gives me a very nice opportunity of driving historic racing cars for Renault. I get to drive many of their fantastic...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
March Cars was created in 1969 by a quartet of Englishmen with a shared vision to construct racing cars for customers in a variety of categories, and within a year the new marque was celebrating its first Formula One success. March went on to become the world’s largest racing car...