Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from...
Belgian, Christian Vanhee, will challenge the Grand Prix Masters Series in a car that could qualify as the first Ron Dennis F1 car, the Rondel RJ02. Rondel Racing, the former Formula 2 outfit run by Dennis and Neil Trundle, sold the Ray Jessop–designed car to Tony Vlasspoulo and Ken Grob...
I can think of very few businesses—aside from magazine publishing—where the odds are more stacked against you than being a...
Denny Hulme was one of the most reserved men in motor racing. He seldom showed his emotions, which he camouflaged...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect a new version of the same Formula 2 category it consigned to history with the creation of Formula 3000 in 1985. This new F2 is intended to be a feeder...
Scottish racer, Bill Dobson, who passed away on October 13, 2008, was one of the first drivers to join David...
The Historic Sports Car Club’s Derek Bell Trophy will have a new look for 2009, following confirmation that MSA championship...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheel racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and very much ahead of its time.Photo: Mike Jiggle When I first started going to races in the 1950s, I had the great good fortune to be able to tag along...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
September 2009 Led away from the start by Graham Hill’s Rondel Racing Brabham BT36, the field for the August 30,...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo: Peter Collins Where do you start? Society weddings, the jet set racing crowd, brewery heirs, Mangustas, Grand Prix disaster. The De Tomaso story has it all, and the car you...
Jean Sage, who headed up Renault’s original factory effort in Formula One, has died at the age of 68 at...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
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,...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport continues to get older, there will be many more. 50 Years of Lister Jaguar to 60 Years of Lotus, everyone gets a celebration or at least a tribute these days....
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even qualifying a stream of uncompetitive cars to becoming the 1982 Formula One World Champion the minute he had reliable machinery with which to lay his talent bare. I first met...