The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
One driver rarely mentioned in the endless pub debate about great drivers is Sir Jack Brabham, yet in many ways...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings and raspings of the commonplace European engines. Beware, that unearthly cry proclaimed. We are coming. Pete Lyons It was at Watkins Glen in 1964, the next to last year of...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
Former Team Lotus mechanic, Jim Endruweit, has passed away at age 83. He joined Colin Chapman and Lotus in 1957...
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-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, F2...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
HSCC unveils 2-liter sports-racing car series The golden era of 2-liter sports racing cars in the 1970s will be brought...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in a car of your own design must have been overwhelming. For Bruce McLaren, the introduction of the Tasman Series, incorporating not only the New Zealand GP, but also the Australian...
The BBC recently screened a documentary on the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Pierre Bouillon’s car was launched into the air...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his effort at Indianapolis. The Shelby Indycar was one of the famous, or infamous if you will, turbine-powered cars. Here’s how it came about. Turbines had been tried at Indy before,...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand in most of motor racing’s varied formulae, and with a number of famous names of the track. He has probably forgotten more about the sport than many care to remember....
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. However, for a long time, only the French knew anything about Matra except for their racing endeavors. Braking hard for a sharp left-hander, the author tries to keep the Matra...
Jean Sage, who headed up Renault’s original factory effort in Formula One, has died at the age of 68 at...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo:...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many false dawns with many teams, including Lotus. I did the Temparada series with Emerson Fittipaldi; the promise was, if Emerson did well, he would end up with a lot of...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
September 2009 Led away from the start by Graham Hill’s Rondel Racing Brabham BT36, the field for the August 30, 1971, Rothmans International Trophy Race for Formula 2 at Brands Hatch charges into Paddock Bend. Hill would eventually finish 2nd to Ronnie Peterson’s victorious March 712M. Photo courtesy of: THE...
