Formula Junior Historics North America has announced an eight-race slate of events for 2016 with support from Bonhams, Passport Transport...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as medical officer for the Royal Air Force in Changi, Singapore, to start at the beginning of the summer. But there was a problem; I had an obsession for motor racing....
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 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 regulations...
The eighth Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion will again wake up the residents of sleepy South Bass Island (off Ohio’s North...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
September 2016 • An impromptu “reunion” of a trio of American road race specials took place at the second running of the Chateau Impney Hillclimb in the United Kingdom. The three cars all contested the old Pebble Beach Road Races of the 1950s in California, so having them all together...
Fourteen vintage racecar run groups have been set for next summer’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, set for August 17-20, 2017,...
Having a father interested in motorsport, and him taking me to watch Tazio Nuvolari race at the 1938 Donington Grand...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Jr., however with that category’s demise at the end of ’63, F2 was reformed...
The year 2017 is shaping up to be memorable for a number of anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of Formula Junior;...
The international Diamond Jubilee Formula Junior celebratory Tour, now on its way to North America, got rolling with five race...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One World Champion, will take part in August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, set for the weekend of August 17-120 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California. The McLaren ambassador will make demonstration runs in the McLaren M23-Ford (above, photo courtesy of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca)...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie beneath the surface. He raced from the mid-1950s to around 1962, but he gave it all up for his business of selling cars in London, Ontario, Canada. Here was a...
The 35th Lime Rock Park Historic Festival will bring three days of spirited historic racing by upwards of 230 drivers...
1983 Tyrrell 012/01-Cosworth The Tyrrell proved to be nimble and responsive around the dunes of Zandvoort. Photo: Pete Austin Since the...
Since 1991 those involved in motor racing, be they competitor, engineer, manufacturer, organizer or enthusiast, have made an annual pilgrimage to Birmingham’s NEC for the Autosport International, or more commonly known as The Racing Car Show. It is the first major international event in the UK’s motorsport calendar where like-minded...
This summer’s Silverstone Classic, set for the weekend of July 20-22, will honor the four F1 World Champions who raced...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
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...