The 1988 season was one of those years when I was truly up against it, my wife was pregnant with...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
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...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
David Scotney was, for many years, the face of Lola Cars at motor racing events around the world. Born and...
A friend phoned saying he had been offered a CTG, and the vendor claimed it had been designed by Len...
I’m sure, like many other racing drivers, the first race victory is an indelible moment in time and a memory that lasts a lifetime. My first win is, for sure, because it was that which ultimately led to everything else. It came in a Formula Ford 1600 race at Cadwell...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the discussion continues in this month’s conclusion, as Judd explains how he became an engine manufacturer and talks about his interactions with motor sport luminaries such as Ken Tyrrell and Tom...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
My career started many years ago, in 1974. I was born in 1962, but I did my first racing in...
Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity to pull on the famous red overalls of Ferrari and climb into one of the team’s beautiful red cars is something I will never get bored of. It is an...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did not enter competition himself until age 23 after attending a racing school. Working his way up the ladder of the sport he eventually found himself racing both in Formula One...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the...
Being Brazilian, my inspiration for motor racing came from Emerson Fittipaldi. Like him, England was the place to learn motor...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not have matched his talent or his promise. Like a number of young South Americans of his generation, Moreno realized that if he were to make a go of his racing...
Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, the 2006 Champ Car season started off with a big bang, winning the first four...
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale...
Adrian CamposPhoto: Pete Austin Today, Spanish motor racing spectators have much to cheer for. Fernando Alonso wins many Grand Prix races and is number one Ferrari driver. Jamie Alguersuari is a great driver with the F1 Torro Rosso team. It was not so easy for me, so many years ago...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early...
Photo: Pete Austin I think I was among the first group of drivers who found a route to motor racing...
As Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was growing and expanding a quarter century ago, one of the ways it sought to perpetuate itself was to create a “feeder series” originally called the American Racing Series. Organized by Roger Bailey and Rafael Sanchez, the ARS used converted Formula 3000 March chassis...
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3...