My career started many years ago, in 1974. I was born in 1962, but I did my first racing in...
A friend phoned saying he had been offered a CTG, and the vendor claimed it had been designed by Len...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting in any environment, but here, at Pau, in the Parc Beaumont, the noise bounced around between the Armco barrier and the park benches, but then was trapped under the trees...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early career started in karts, which would be 1983. Four years later, aged 18 years, I moved on to Formula Ford, progressing to the German Formula 3 championship in 1989, driving...
As Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was growing and expanding a quarter century ago, one of the ways it sought...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3 and F3000 Championships. My appetite was for a further challenge in single-seaters, I had little interest in sportscars, and so, the logical next step for us was to look at...
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...
Being Brazilian, my inspiration for motor racing came from Emerson Fittipaldi. Like him, England was the place to learn motor racing, so I moved there, and it was an English marque I had a long association with. My driving career saw me, in the main, driving Reynard chassis—right from my...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
David Scotney was, for many years, the face of Lola Cars at motor racing events around the world. Born and bred in the Huntingdon area of Cambridgeshire, David honed his mechanical skills at local garages during and after his apprenticeship. In 1978 he joined Lola, working on the T500 USAC...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the days…” series, Motor Racing at Thruxton in the 1980s, takes the reader back three decades to the days when the former WWII air base regularly hosted rounds of the FIA...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
Photo: Pete Austin I think I was among the first group of drivers who found a route to motor racing...
Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, the 2006 Champ Car season started off with a big bang, winning the first four races at Long Beach, Houston, Monterey and Milwaukee. Although most teams were running the same Lola chassis as we were, due to the demise of Reynard, Newman/Haas had provided me...
1990 Leyton House CG901/3Photo: Mike Jiggle Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
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...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The...
The 1988 season was one of those years when I was truly up against it, my wife was pregnant with our daughter and I desperately needed to race. All other options had failed, so I went back to my roots in England and spoke with some teams I’d previously raced...
I’m sure, like many other racing drivers, the first race victory is an indelible moment in time and a memory...