The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Coppa Intereuropa organizer Jason Wright will shake up this year’s Monza meeting, scheduled for June 1–3, with a four-hour race...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race at all. The previous year there had been a fatality on the 6.6-mile course that ran right through town on Franklin Street. The Austin-Healey 100 pace car leads the pack...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
In the early 1980s, the Marlboro British F3 Championship was reckoned the most desirable to be in. The top three...
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....
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to let him race a kart. They hired one for him, but he crashed it on the first lap of his first race, so kart racing was a no-no in the...
Formula 3 was a superb training ground for many British drivers in the early 1950s. For this sunny International Daily...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake of this piece I’ll restrict it to a few lines to give readers a glimpse into my view of a truly great character and a very good friend. As boys,...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
Since the very beginning of motorsports competition, a common thread has run through the sport: It takes money to go fast. An old joke goes something like, “You know how to make a million dollars at racing? Start with five million!” In this day of Formula One teams spending half...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his...
If you were going to build an 850-cc sports racer in the 1960s, which engine would you choose? Larry Kropp answered that question with a Deutsch Bonnet air-cooled two-cylinder, and to this day he remains steadfast that his decision was spot on. In the ’60s Kropp was a toolmaker living...
1935 Sulman Singer We all have defining moments in our lives that remain with us. Moments that leave an indelible...
September 2007 BMW Drivers Dear Editor, Read your article on the prewar BMW with great interest. Although I knew he had a prewar racing career, I never knew that Huschke von Hanstein was one of their racing drivers. But what intrigued me more was learning about one of their lesser...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
Here’s a site dedicated to chronicling the first 50 years of Formula Three racing. It covers the formula from its beginnings in 1950 as the 500-cc cars until the Dallaras became the de facto spec car in 2000. F3 has always been a training category where drivers with their sights...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the discussion continues in this month’s conclusion, as Judd explains how he became an engine manufacturer and talks about his interactions with motor sport luminaries such as Ken Tyrrell and Tom...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
Bev BondPhoto: Pete Austin I was born with a competitive spirit, my father represented Great Britain at Speedway, my mother...
October 17–18 brought a trip back in time for some of Britain’s F3 stars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bev Bond was a guest at the Silverstone meeting run by the HSCC, hosting a round of historic F3 for the “one-liter screamers.” The following day, Bond, Barrie Williams,...