Maybe I’ll change my mind by the end of the column, but as I tap out this opening sentence, I...
Formula One – All the Races By Roger Smith This mighty 600 page-tome is the Formula One race version of...
The stars are beginning to align in preparation for the 2012 Donington Historic Festival on May 5–6, with early entrants including the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hours winner and ex-Formula One driver Jackie Oliver, who will share a 1961 250 GT SWB with Rohan Fernando in the Pre-’63 GT...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in...
A pair of events scheduled for later this year in England will celebrate the half century since Graham Hill became...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its 2012 Phil Hill Award at the RRDC dinner prior to January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented the award. Since...
Involved with mechancial things virtually all his life, John Barnard first worked in racing at Lola, then a fertile training...
It sounds like the title of a bad B-movie doesn’t it? They came from the great beyond. Legions of historic racecars hell-bent, with only one purpose…the survival and perpetuation of their own race! Da-Da-Daahhhh!!! While it might sound outlandish and far-fetched, it’s actually not. There is a growing movement afoot,...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999. Pete Lyons By...
Return to Power, a new series for 3-liter Formula One cars that raced between 1966 and 1971, is set to...
The Grand Prix Mechanics Charitable Trust has launched a revamped website aimed at keeping current and former F1 mechanics in...
Bob Schroeder, the only Arkansas-born driver to ever participate in a World Championship Formula One event—the 1962 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen—passed away in a Dallas hospital on December 3, 2011, at the age of 85. Born Robert Edward Schroeder in El Dorado, Arkansas, on May 11, 1926, Bob...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
It has been three and a half years since Bernard Cahier passed away, but my memories of him still linger...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t there? Elegant, vivid little cars that used to be all over? Yup. No Alfa Romeos. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Behind Le Mans, The Film in Photographs By Michael Keyser Arguably one of the most influential racing feature films of...
With this month’s Profile of Jackie Stewart’s BRM P261, we thought a deeper look into the workings of British Racing...
Former F1, sports car and F5000 driver Peter Gethin died on December 5 after a lengthy illness. Gethin is remembered for a number of stirring races including his famous victory in the 1971 Italian Grand Prix at Monza for BRM, considered to be the closest finish ever in a Grand...
Just as we went to press last month, we heard the tragic news of Dan Wheldon’s fatal accident in the...
Being Brazilian, my inspiration for motor racing came from Emerson Fittipaldi. Like him, England was the place to learn motor...
A.J. Foyt Pedro Rodriguez 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born in West Virginia (1901). 3 Dave MacDonald wins the USRRC race at Augusta, Georgia, driving a King Cobra (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Widely experienced chief mechanic and author Sal Incandela has passed away at his home in the Las Vegas suburb of...
Californian John Delane has become the first American to win the overall Historic Formula One championship, claiming the 2011 crown...
The name Robin Donovan may not mean much to most, but this man has quietly gone about his business and played a significant part in Le Mans history. He raced there for 14 consecutive years. From his point of view it is a “dream come true” story of a little...
