1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula One car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the ravages of time. As I sat in the church at the funeral of John Surtees—listening to the wonderful tributes from his daughters Leonora and Edwina, as well as a most...
This portrait of the legendary John Surtees, by mixed media artist Jonathan (Joff) Carter, commemorates the unique, astounding, achievements of...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario,...
Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley has passed away at the age of 88. Broadley was one of the early players the post-war British racing car industry, and after his Mk1 sports racer convinced him to give up his own driving career to focus on being a constructor, his Lola designs...
As you’ll read in this month’s news—and likely learned from our web site back on March 10—multi-time motorcycle and Formula...
Although my passion and love of motor racing was born in Italy—at Monza during the 1969 Italian GP—my first real...
“Where have all the young teams gone?” the words of that famous song with a one word alteration could well apply to the ranks of Formula One teams since the World Championship came into being back in 1950. It is said that more than 150 teams have come and gone,...
Masters Historic Racing, one of Europe’s leading organizers and promoters of historic motor racing, has announced it will organize a...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest of honor at the ninth annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner held in conjunction with the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last Thursday evening. The gala event at...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your boss rushes in, hands you a large sheet of paper and two freshly sharpened pencils. “Design me a 2500-cc engine,” he commands. “That will be the capacity for the next...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
A full press corps of international motor racing journalists attended the Media Day for the 2017 edition of the Silverstone Classic at the circuit that is the Home of British Motor Racing in Northamptonshire. July’s last weekend (28-30) is when Silverstone fans will be rocking and racing to what has...
Rudolf Caracciola Biography Rudolf Caracciola was born in the town of Remagen, Germany on January 30, 1901 the son of...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission...
Don Garlits Ayrton Senna Photo: Bury Mason 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda President and CEO, is born (1936). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and a German driver, Nico Rosberg. Germany has had many successes and failures during the history of motor racing and the life of the modern Formula One World Championship. While pre-war...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming the new Jim Clark. His rise to fame, however, came to a sudden—even if temporary—standstill after a horrendous 10-car, 150 mph Formula 3000 accident while driving Jordan Racing’s Reynard-Ford Cosworth...