Mike Costin Bill Milliken.Photo: Bentley Publishing 1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2...
In Mass’ last full year, 1991, he teamed with Jean-Louis Schlesser in this C11 for the Mercedes-Benz WSC team as...
Seen here at Monaco, Laffite scored two of his six Grand Prix wins in 1981, taking his favorite Talbot Ligier JS17-Matra to victory in Austria and Canada.Photo: Maureen Magee I feel that 1981 was a year where I could have won the F1 World Championship, but we gave silly points away...
Mike Lawrence Here is a question to ponder: when was there last welding equipment in a Formula One pitlane, or...
The 182T, the 182 chassis fitted with the Turbo V-8, first appeared at Monza, near the end of the 1982...
Mike Lawrence At the end of last year, I moved from Chichester to Oxford or, to put it in terms even the most geographically challenged reader will understand, from Goodwood to Silverstone and the heart of the British motor racing industry. Three Formula One engineers live within 50 yards of...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers?...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
1990 Leyton House CG901/3Photo: Mike Jiggle Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed the car, Adrian Newey, as the car itself. It was Irish novelist James Joyce who said, “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the...
Much of Brawn’s success has come courtesy of Michael Schumacher, seen here in 1992 at Spa, winning his first Grand...
Ian Ashley Lola T330 F5000. Photo: BRDC Archive Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with...
Masha Pasichnyk is a 23-year-old artist from Kiev, Ukraine, who is visiting the USA at present. Her interest in car art became aroused after painting a friend’s car, and she is now being represented by automobile art dealer Steve Austin in the USA. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Unless you’ve somehow managed to live completely “off the grid” for the past few months, by now...
Bandini in the Ferrari T1512/63 during the non-championship International Trophy race at Silverstone in the Spring of 1965, where he finished 7th. Milan was in mourning the first time I visited the cathedral city, in the late spring of 1967. In fact, all of Italy hung its collective head in...
Maserati 250 F Car: Maserati 250 F / Engine: 6-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Maserati / Bore X Stroke: 84 mm X 75...
Villeneuve won four races, including Indy, on his way to the 1995 CART Indycar crown. Photo: John Zimmermann Collection This...
Rudy & the ’Ring Dear Editor, I love reading Mike Lawrence’s comments every issue! I always learn something. I believe Rudolf Caracciola won five German GPs on the Nürburgring (1928, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1939), not six. His first German GP win was at the AVUS track in 1926. Become a...
Eddie Rickenbacker Soichiro Honda 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 F1 World Champion Alan...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things get a little stale, or as a response when it is perceived that the public is losing interest. Other times it’s driven by sponsors...
Author Robert Heinlein once wrote, “A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.” With a recent announcement by...
Jochen Rindt Biography Rindt was born in Germany in 1942 of Austrian and German parentage. His parents died under Allied...
Jules Goux John FitchPhoto: Mercedes 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Gilles Villeneuve wins the non-championship Formula Atlantic race through the streets of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, driving a March 76B (1976). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Richard Petty Emilio Villoresi 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talladega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 ...
Mike Lawrence In 1957 Maserati was supreme. Fangio won the F1 Championship and the Maserati 450S came within an ace...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone can do anything, if they work hard and put their mind to it. For American road racing enthusiasts, there is a racing equivalent of the American Dream, but for the...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family...
Photo: Pete Austin I think I was among the first group of drivers who found a route to motor racing...
