Way back in 1973 the actor Orson Wells, chosen for his deep and imposing voice, appeared on commercial television as...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
• Watkins Glen International has announced that Jaguar Cars North America will sponsor the United States Vintage Grand Prix weekend, one of the largest vintage racing events on the national calendar, September 9-11, 2016. Jaguar has a storied history at Watkins Glen, and SVRA’s U.S. Vintage Grand Prix presented by...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
The Argentine Temporada Motor Races – 1950 to 1960 By Hernan Lopez Laiseca Originally organized as a way to prove...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that owns and operates the international motorsport park at Taupo, New Zealand, has renamed the multi-purpose facility Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. McLaren is, of course, the Kiwi-born racecar designer, driver and...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
My favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers World Championship. I know he only won the one race with the car, the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon, but he beat people like Piquet driving a Brabham, who...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Mike Lawrence One of the delights of Vintage Racecar is reading the small ads and being reminded of the sheer...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Seems unfathomable that we have never looked at this site (forgive us, Ferrari fans), but better late than never, and...
The FIA Sports Prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The Mustang was introduced to an anxious public in Flushing, NY at the 1964 World’s Fair. Photo: Ford Motor Company Our story begins with the Mustang’s introduction on April 17, 1964, at the New York World’s Fair. It turned out to be the right car at the right time, speaking...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone...
• Historic Sportscar racing (HSR) will sanction a vintage/ historic sportscar race as part of the 62nd Annual 12 Hours...
• Stu Hilborn, widely known as the Father of Fuel Injection, has passed away at the age of 96. While in the U.S. Air Force during WWII, Hilborn devised a new way of increasing fuel flow to internal combustion engines, and his mechanical fuel injection system revolutionized the auto racing...
Gaston Chevrolet Alan JonesPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP to clinch his first Formula One World...
Safe Is Fast is a site presented by the Road Racing Drivers Club and supported by the FIA Institute for...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
A special added feature of Silverstone’s April 21-21 VSCC Spring Start meeting will be a recreation of the historic Commander...
The assembled gladiators, left to right: Alain Mahé, Jean-Francois Piot, Jacques Jauber, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Louis Marnat, Michele “Biche” Petit, Jean Rédélé, Michel Vial, Marcel Callewaert, Jean-Claude Andruet, Bernard Darniche, Jean-Luc Thérier, Jean-Pierre Nicolas, Ove Andersson and Jean Todt.Photo: Renault communications Two significant anniversaries come along during 2013 for Alpine Renault....
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
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...
