I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
The author enjoyed slipping snugly into 2617 and giving it a proper run during an HGPCA test day at Silverstone. Photo: Pete...
Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes rebuilt and returned to what it knew best, manufacturing passenger vehicles. But Mercedes-Benz also had a passion for competition on the world stage and so by 1951 factions within the...
The tight streets of Monaco hosted round six of the 1977 Formula One season. The race was won by Jody...
The Ford Motor Company recently announced its entrance into a technical partnership with defending Formula One World Champions Red Bull...
The 2012 European Grand Prix at the forgotten, abandoned Valencia Street Circuit. Image via Planet F1 Formula One, by its very definition, is often seen as the pinnacle of motorsports. This holds true in many aspects, especially in the fact that the circuits that the cars race are some of...
Onboard footage of Derek Warwick driving an Arrows A11 at the 1989 San Marino Grand Prix that was held at...
Onboard footage of Niki Lauda in a Brabham BT46 during the 1978 Belgian Grand Prix....
Highlights from the1964 Italian Grand Prix. John Surtees won the race as he started from pole position driving a Ferrari car....
Watch this exclusive footage of Jochen Mass, the German former Formula One racing driver, onboard an Arrows A2 during the...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created 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...
Colin Chapman Biography Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman was born on 9 May, 1928 in a suburb of London. He grew...
Manfred von Brauchitsch Biography He was called die Pechvogel, the unlucky bird. He was known more for the races that he lost...
Even a weekend of changeable weather conditions at Road America couldn’t stop some great racing for Masters USA, at the ever-popular WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman, Presented by Hawk. It was a wet first-race for Masters Historic Formula One USA, on Saturday afternoon, with James Hagan (Tyrrell 011) winning...
Photo Gallery from the June 13-14, 2019, FIA Masters Formula One races at Mt. Tremblant, Canada...
Circuit Mont-Tremblant was the stunning mountainous backdrop this last weekend for the crowd-pleasing Masters Historic Formula One USA cars, as...
Formula One designer and March Engineering co-founder Robin Herd has passed away at the age of 80. After graduating from Oxford university with degrees in engineering and physics, Herd went to work in the British aerospace industry, where he initially worked on the supersonic Concorde project. However, by 1965, the...
Neville Lederle, the 1963 South Africa Champion driver, has passed away at aged 80. Lederle was one of the few...
Gordon Murray has unveiled a fully-immersive, internet-based virtual exhibition of 40 different iconic race and road cars produced during the...
Lewis Hamilton Biography Few drivers have entered Formula One racing with as big a bang as Lewis Hamilton and a seemingly charmed racing career nurtured in no small part by Ron Dennis, principle at McLaren at the time. Hamilton’s sensational maiden season in 2007 – in which he lost out...
David Bruce-Brown Biography Born in 1887 to wealthy merchant parents, he attended the Allen-Stephenson School in New York City, and...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One motor race. Not to mention 14 victories in the heart-in-your-mouth Isle of Man TT. So he quickly earned himself the nickname of “Mike the Bike.” If the truth were told,...
Photo: Chris Mann This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives a Matra MS5 to victory in the F3 race at Magny-Cours, France (1968). 2 – The All American Racers DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs...
Wow Gilles!—Villeneuve, The Undying Legend By Ercole Columbo Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...