Formula 3 was a superb training ground for many British drivers in the early 1950s. For this sunny International Daily...
October 17–18 brought a trip back in time for some of Britain’s F3 stars of the late 1960s and early...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Formula Ford was a racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if all were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
The Formula Junior Category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
Winning the 1970 Monaco Formula Three race was seen as my ticket to a Grand Prix future. I’d made my F3 debut the previous year, in 1969, so winning such a high-profile race early in my career was a great boost for me. It wasn’t an easy win either, as...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
As far as I’m concerned the greatest racecar I ever drove is the car that gave me the greatest happiness...
It took time for me to become enthusiastic about anything German. I have been hit by the blast of a V1 flying bomb. My mother had just risen from a chair with my baby brother and a dagger of glass pierced the back of the chair. Hollywood explosions are all...
The 2005 Walter Hayes Trophy meeting at Silverstone took me full circle back to Formula Ford, the formula I started...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in 2011. Although the 1600-cc Formula 3 era was relatively short-lived, running for just three seasons, it was a time when many future Grand Prix stars were making their name in...
Jack was born on April 2, 1926, and I think it’s appropriate that we all wish him a happy birthday....
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about his career and motor racing in general. He was very helpful when VR’s European Editor asked him to contribute to his Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, and he was just...
Without doubt, I have to say my greatest racecar is the Jaguar XJR-9 LM that took me, Jan Lammers and...
Jean Sage, who headed up Renault’s original factory effort in Formula One, has died at the age of 68 at...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number of 11 French national motorcycle racing championships, in three years, by the time he was 28. After that, he made a profession out of being a champion of many forms...
Initially, Jean-Pierre Jabouille made his mark in France’s national Formula Three racing in 1968. Not only did he race, but...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
John Coombs was literally born into the motoring business, as his multi-talented craftsman father was already working with automobiles when John appeared on the scene. As John grew up he eventually began racing, soon moving successfully into 500-cc Formula Three. Eventually, the family firm, Coombs & Sons, Ltd., became known for...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and 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...