For the burgeoning Formula Two category for 1½-liter cars, French star driver Jean Behra based a new racing car of...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit “Come Together” somewhere in the back of my head. I have often used the metaphor of how some of the most interesting motor racing tales are based on an almost...
Ascari and Formula II 1952 and 1953 were watershed years for Scuderia Ferrari, notable not only for what the team...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
Masters Historic Racing has announced its 2021 Masters USA Calendar with a roll-call of the classic North American road circuits. Next year’s Masters U.S. Tour takes in six stunning North American circuits in a nine-round schedule that goes full circle, starting and ending at Sebring. To add to the excitement,...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
This summer’s Silverstone Classic (July 26–28) will play host to one of the largest grids of Formula 2 cars ever...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheel racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2 was...
Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...
March 2018 Second to None The European Formula 2 Story: From Ickx to Thackwell and from Rindt to Streiff By...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheel racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2 was...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
The only time I ever met Eddie Cheever was one weekend when we were at the Hockenheim circuit, in Germany,...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce, Argentina the son of an Italian immigrant in 1911. After military service he opened his own garage and would race in local events. These “local” events were not the weekend...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Today, I believe, drivers are arriving in Formula One far too early in their racing career. The top echelon of our sport is something they should aspire to, not arrive at due to the amount of money they can give a Formula One team, or by spending one year in...
Looking back, I’m tempted to regard the Mo Nunn-designed Theodore N183, as my greatest racecar. It was one of the...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
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...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
In this age of hi-tech carbon fiber car and aircraft construction, wood may now seem an odd material to use, but remember the days when it was very much a favored material for all sorts of things, houses and bonfires included. Still good for those, but the days of wooden...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
Last month, in this space, I spoke about our newest contributor Howden Ganley, whose incredible motorsport career saw him go...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with impeccable racing pedigrees, or others that have an interesting history. This month, our profile of the 1977 LEC CRP1 F1 car is more about the determination of racing driver David...
