Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
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 Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
Throughout history, men have always competed to go faster, farther, and higher than others, and during the past century much of this has been done in motor cars. In early days no attention was paid to safety, with numerous fatalities meaning motor sport ranked second only to flying homemade aircraft...
The Brabham BT24 was one of three cars that contested the 1967 Formula One racing season for the Brabham-Repco team....
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona. First IMSA GTP race (1981). 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on the beach at Daytona,...
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
It was indeed a sad day for Australian historic racing enthusiasts when word came of the untimely passing of John...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British...
January 2009 The Father, the Son, and the 2900B Dear Editor, Your news article (VR, November 2008) on the Alfa Romeo 2900B that won the first Watkins Glen race in 1948, states that its driver was Stephen Griswold. In fact, the winning driver was Frank T. Griswold, father of Stephen,...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
January 2009 The Automotive Art of Alan Fearnley Foreword by Murray Walker While there are—and have been—many fine automotive artists,...
Ford’s iconic GT40 will be the featured marque at this summer’s 10th annual Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman on the weekend of July 16-19 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Also featured among the more than 1,000 entries in 10 race groups at the SVRA event will be...
Sir Stirling Moss, winner of 16 Formula One Grands Prix and countless other races, has been awarded the Royal Automobile...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
Personally, I have driven some really good machines. I had a 917 Porsche that I thought was a truly remarkable car, and a 962, too. The only Indy car I had wished I had been able to race was the turbine car, because it was so dominant when it ran....
There was something missing from the recent Olympics—motor sport. I can think of no good reason why, when we have...
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Damon Hill OBE, president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and the 1996 Formula One World Champion, joined Richard Phillips and his staff at Silverstone on October 2, 2008, to celebrate the circuit’s Diamond Anniversary. Hill and Phillips posed for photos with a 60th anniversary birthday cake baked in...
Patrick Morgan’s Dawn Treader Company has just completed a full restoration of the ex-Ivan Capelli, Leyton House, March CG891 Judd,...
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ex-Phil Hill 1963 ATS F1 The 1961 Formula One World Champion Phil Hill did not learn that most of the important people in the Ferrari team had left Modena until he had signed a contract to drive again for the Scuderia in 1962. The racing world was shocked when it heard...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing...
In 2001, our Ed McDonough spoke with Phil Hill about his championship year in Formula One and the oftentimes challenging politics of racing for Ferrari in the ’60s. In remembrance of Hill and his achievement, we reproduce that interview here, which first appeared in VR in our September 2001 issue....
