Vittorio Jano Biography Born on April 22, 1891 as Viktor János in San Giorgio Canavese to Hungarian immigrants, Vittorio Jano...
The first Canadian Grand Prix was held at Mosport Park, August 27, 1967. To celebrate that historic occasion, VARAC will...
Historic Grand Prix (HGP) have announced that they have been chosen to stage a historic Formula One race as part of the new Las Vegas CHAMP car street race to be held April 6–8, 2007. Not only will HGP hold a full race that weekend, but the race will also...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Andre Ribeiro Len Sutton 1 Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in Victoria, Australia (1987). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
The Race of Champions; Brands Hatch, March 19, 1972. A superb shot of Ronnie Peterson in the experimental (too bad...
When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the...
Late last month, just as we were going to press, we learned of the tragic and untimely death of ’70s Formula One star Clay Regazzoni. Regazzoni was driving on the Italian Autostrada, on his way to a club function, when he lost control of his specially-equipped Chrysler Voyager and crashed...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations,...
April 2007 BRM V16 By Karl Ludvigsen The history of motorsport is rife with exotic machines and spectacular flops, but few cars can lay claim to as much technical sophistication and unrealized potential as the BRM V16. The brainchild of British racer Raymond Mays, the BRM V16, or “The Mays...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to...
In the early 1980s, the Marlboro British F3 Championship was reckoned the most desirable to be in. The top three...
Since the very dawn of motorsport, automobile racing has been governed by rules. The very first motoring competition was the Paris-Rouen trials in 1894. Organized by the Parisian newspaper Le Petit Journal, the rules were seemingly vague and capricious, including the caveat that the winner would be “chosen” by a...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
Performance perv that I am, I’m turned on by naked racecars. Even partially undressed ones. Lift an engine cover, unveil a shapely suspension arm, merely de-Dzus an access panel and I’m there, slavering. I simply groove on racing’s luscious secret places. Pete Lyons That’s probably one more reason I so...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria to being Porsche’s man in the USA, to his involvement in virtually every facet of Penske Racing. Born just before the Second World War in Vienna, Austria, Kainhofer became involved...
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars...
One of the premier historic motorsport championships has a new title. Effective immediately, the Thoroughbred Grand Prix series, which features...
June 2007 Postcards from Detroit: Remembering Formula 1 in the Motor City By Roger Hart From 1982 to 1988 the United States Grand Prix played itself out on the streets of Motor City—Detroit, Michigan. Featuring the glass and steel Renaissance Center as its backdrop, the Detroit Grand Prix played host...
Ferrari—let the word roll over your tongue. Doesn’t it taste good? Have you ever experienced—can you even imagine—a better name...
In the late 1960s—1969 I think—I started racing motorbikes in local races in Belgium. Not too powerful machines, just 50-cc,...
In early April, I made my way to Las Vegas for the inaugural Champ car Vegas Grand Prix. This new event featured just three races through the streets of downtown Las Vegas, the main Champ car race, an Atlantic race, and a historic Formula One race sanctioned by Historic Grand...
From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a...
1976 Holden Torana L34 A month or so back, Vintage Racecar interviewed Leo Geoghegan, a true icon of Australian motorsport....