Formula One crossed an historic turning point on March 2, but I think it is safe to say that almost...
The Second Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, which will take place June 4–5, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, has...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He won a superb battle with Peter Ryan’s Lotus 19. Penske was smooth…in every way. He was young, good-looking and very determined. My interest was also sparked by the fact that...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
May 2011 Collage – Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix Album Sir Jackie Stewart The wives and girlfriends of racing drivers of...
Is it possible to have too many racecars? We didn’t think so either. With a growing number of interesting “Track Day Cars” now coming on the market and more and more opportunities and places to run them now available, we bring you here an interesting cross-section of some of the...
You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at...
One driver rarely mentioned in the endless pub debate about great drivers is Sir Jack Brabham, yet in many ways he is the most remarkable World Champion of all. He did not arrive on the scene like a blazing comet, there were always drivers with more natural talent, but he...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings and raspings of the commonplace European engines. Beware, that unearthly cry proclaimed. We are coming. Pete Lyons It was at Watkins Glen in 1964, the next to last year of...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under his driving suit. Ex-public schoolboy irreverence that only partially sums up this deceptively talented, sophisticated and intelligent man. He personified that much overworked term charisma, but he was also an...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
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 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 Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
The organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced that Jaguar will be the featured marque for this year’s event, scheduled for August 19–21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This will be the third time in the 38-year history of the event that Jaguar has been honored as the...
Former Team Lotus mechanic, Jim Endruweit, has passed away at age 83. He joined Colin Chapman and Lotus in 1957...
Derek Gardner will be remembered, by many, as the designer of one of the most radically designed cars ever to...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the Lotus 30 over the years wasn’t necessarily true. Photo: Pete Austin Racing car enthusiasts, on the whole, treasure every innovative idea manufacturers have managed to conjure up. However, Auto Union and...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
Two Ross Brawn-designed cars were to play a big part in my racing career, both were formidable contenders and race winners, but in totally different formulae. My experiences in one led to a drive in the other. The two cars are the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-14 and the other the...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
With Sir Frank Williams as our interview subject this month, we thought it might be a good idea to send...
The motor racing world was saddened to learn of the passing of Tom Walkinshaw in December of last year. Tom Walkinshaw was the son of a successful market gardener at Mauldslie Farm, near Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland. His initial days as a racing driver were a true test of grit and...
