I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
If you were going to build an 850-cc sports racer in the 1960s, which engine would you choose? Larry Kropp answered that question with a Deutsch Bonnet air-cooled two-cylinder, and to this day he remains steadfast that his decision was spot on. In the ’60s Kropp was a toolmaker living...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9,...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
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...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at the end of 1982. In 1978 I did five Grands Prix for McLaren in a third car. I don’t remember exactly how Alfa Romeo contacted me, but they wanted to...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance racing’s Big Three signature events, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is also one of just two to...
Casey Annis / Editor I was very interested to read James Beckett’s profile last month on the Martini F3 car,...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful...
Bicester is a small market town 12 miles north of Oxford. For centuries nothing much remarkable happened, then an estate of small factory units was built to encourage light industry. First March, then Reynard, turned the town into the world capital of customer racing cars. More than 3,000 single-seaters were...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and...
Since the very beginning of motorsports competition, a common thread has run through the sport: It takes money to go fast. An old joke goes something like, “You know how to make a million dollars at racing? Start with five million!” In this day of Formula One teams spending half...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
Coppa Intereuropa organizer Jason Wright will shake up this year’s Monza meeting, scheduled for June 1–3, with a four-hour race on Saturday June 2 echoing the famous Monza 1000-kilometer contests of the ’60s and ’70s. The Monza 1000K was for many years the highlight of the Italian season, often eclipsing...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
As I mentioned here, a few months ago, for several years I sorted the boxes of stuff that Eoin Young had picked up at auctions or autojumbles. One day I came upon a program for a motorcycle speedway meeting in 1937—it was only a sheet of foolscap folded in two,...
Former F3 racer, Bev Bond, who drove for Gold Leaf Team Lotus during the late 1960s, has waged a war...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of my even being interested in the sport. As my mother one day said to me, “It’s not as if you’ll ever take part.” How wrong she was! From the glamor...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior, but with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...