Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity...
David Scotney was, for many years, the face of Lola Cars at motor racing events around the world. Born and...
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...
A friend phoned saying he had been offered a CTG, and the vendor claimed it had been designed by Len...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the...
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...
Photo: Pete Austin I think I was among the first group of drivers who found a route to motor racing...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early...
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...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
My career started many years ago, in 1974. I was born in 1962, but I did my first racing in karts in 1974. I spent many years in karting, and I won three Italian titles, one European title and one World title in 1984, which was when I started racing...
I’m sure, like many other racing drivers, the first race victory is an indelible moment in time and a memory...
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect a new version of the same Formula 2 category it consigned to history with the creation of Formula 3000 in 1985. This new F2 is intended to be a feeder...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
Being Brazilian, my inspiration for motor racing came from Emerson Fittipaldi. Like him, England was the place to learn motor...
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...
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...
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...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3...
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...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
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 a devastating motor racing accident in 2001, nearly bled to death, underwent more surgery in which his legs were further shortened to allow them to heal, fought back through a...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...