Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed to stock car meetings at a track near my home in Dublin City, Ireland. I crashed it, bashed it, took it home after the race and fixed it, so I...
This month’s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own...
Tom Walkinshaw began his racing career as just another youngster trying to find ways to indulge his passions, and by...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Formula Ford was a racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing...
Charles Randolph “Chuck” McCain, whose Alfa Romeo “Keenan Wynn Special” was featured on the cover of VR’s October 2009 issue,...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and then onto Formula Three. However, had it not been for the support of Alan McKechnie, I may not have “made it” at all. Injury, too, was something that hindered me....
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in...
Australian racing legend Frank Gardner died on August 29 after a long illness. He was 78. Gardner was not only...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula 3—a championship I stayed in for about four or five years. Formula Three was a good experience for me and my team, Euroracing. In 1977 we won the European F3...
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The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory in the 220-km Padua-Vicenza-Bassano-Treviso-Padua race. Also this is the first race for Felice Nazzaro (1900). 2 The first official Formula Ford race is held at Brands Hatch, England (1967). Become...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
October 2008 Tiger Tales Dear Editor, I saw Art’s letter in your August issue about the Sunbeam Tiger. In 1964, I did a shoot for the California Sports Car magazine, the continuation magazine that Art and Dick Sherwin started in the ’50s. We were at the Roots Group showroom on Pico...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown,...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
I can think of very few businesses—aside from magazine publishing—where the odds are more stacked against you than being a racecar manufacturer. Your product is multifaceted and technologically complicated, yet you have usually less than 12 months available to go from new design to finished product. Production requires expensive and...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was still a Formula One newcomer. The Toleman team had been struggling for three years and had only begun to get a few results toward the end of 1983. While the...
When asked to describe one of my favorite sections of racetracks in Australia, very quickly I thought of Winton Motor...
Corinthian Vintage Auto Racing (CVAR) has announced that it will hold a special race weekend in honor of the first Formula Ford race held at Brands Hatch, England in 1967. The four-day event will be held at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit in Hallett, Oklahoma, a beautiful, hilly, technically challenging track...
