1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula One car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the ravages of time. As I sat in the church at the funeral of John Surtees—listening to the wonderful tributes from his daughters Leonora and Edwina, as well as a most...
This portrait of the legendary John Surtees, by mixed media artist Jonathan (Joff) Carter, commemorates the unique, astounding, achievements of...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario,...
As you’ll read in this month’s news—and likely learned from our web site back on March 10—multi-time motorcycle and Formula One World Champion John Surtees has passed away at the age of 83. While we make mention of his passing in this issue, next month we will feature a unique...
Although my passion and love of motor racing was born in Italy—at Monza during the 1969 Italian GP—my first real...
“Where have all the young teams gone?” the words of that famous song with a one word alteration could well...
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...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your boss rushes in, hands you a large sheet of paper and two freshly sharpened pencils. “Design me a 2500-cc engine,” he commands. “That will be the capacity for the next...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
Two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi (above, Roger Dixon photo), who also won a pair of Indy 500s and an Indycar National Championship, will be honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the “RRDC Evening with Emerson Fittipaldi Presented by Firestone” in Long Beach, California, on Thursday, April...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission...
Don Garlits Ayrton Senna Photo: Bury Mason 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South...
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 Championship for Drivers, in the world’s most technically...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine built by their company would take the motor racing world by storm. However, history shows the enormous impact the duo had, especially at the highest echelon of the sport—Formula One....
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a small boy, aged about five or six years old. How this was to become a reality was beyond dreams, I was the son of a Lutterworth farmer and far removed...
In this age of hi-tech carbon fiber car and aircraft construction, wood may now seem an odd material to use,...
February 2017 Bruce McLaren – From the Cockpit By Bruce McLaren Although in very recent years the domination of the...
February 2017 • Publication of the final calendar for the FIA’s 2017 Formula One World Championship means that the date for next summer’s Silverstone Classic will shift a week in order to accommodate the changes. The 2017 Silverstone Classic, featuring a 50th anniversary celebration of Formula Ford, will now take...
