Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
Author Robert Heinlein once wrote, “A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.” With a recent announcement by Formula One “Supremo” Bernie Ecclestone, I can’t help but wonder if this aphorism doesn’t hold true for Formula One, as well. The impetus for all this was Ecclestone’s recent pronouncement...
Jochen Rindt Biography Rindt was born in Germany in 1942 of Austrian and German parentage. His parents died under Allied...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
Mike Lawrence Recently, I was contacted by a chap in New Jersey who labored under the impression that I know much more than I do. He had bought an MZ 850 single-seater and wanted to know more. Not only had I not heard of the make, I had no knowledge...
Sex, infidelity, theft, intrigue, a lightly raced car, a tragic airplane crash and a pack of lifelong friends…some famous, some...
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...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
• Historic Sportscar racing (HSR) will sanction a vintage/ historic sportscar race as part of the 62nd Annual 12 Hours...
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the same time, both distressing and a pleasure to write about him. I make absolutely no apology for admitting that he was my last “hero” in Formula One racing. Nobody else...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
Rudy & the ’Ring Dear Editor, I love reading Mike Lawrence’s comments every issue! I always learn something. I believe...
Martin BrundlePhoto: Mike Jiggle In 1982, BP took me to F3 full-time. I finished 2nd in my first F3 race of the season; I was going really well. I remember getting taken down to BP HQ in Victoria because Les Thacker (BP Competitions Manager) thought I’d been a bit cocky...
• The field for this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion—where Corvette is the featured marque on the occasion of its...
Without doubt the greatest racing car is one I’ve not driven. I’ll explain later. It’s my hero’s, Jim Clark’s Lotus...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add an American V-8, clothe it in a lightweight body and go racing. It worked for Carroll Shelby. It worked for Sydney Allard. Worked for a lot of other folks too,...
Scheckter’s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished.Photo:...
The name Guy Griffiths may not be familiar to many motorsports enthusiasts in the United States but in the United Kingdom and Europe, the Griffiths name is synonymous with outstanding post-World War II motorsports photography. In fact, Griffiths has been called England’s greatest post-war racing photographer. During his five-decade career,...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating 20 years since the first event in 1993. Unbelievably, the target audience for...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach, Brian Redman remains one of our sport’s treasures. A lifelong racer, he claimed 18 major international endurance race victories in a succession of Fords, Porsches, Ferraris and BMWs, and won...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
A special added feature of Silverstone’s April 21-21 VSCC Spring Start meeting will be a recreation of the historic Commander...
The 182T, the 182 chassis fitted with the Turbo V-8, first appeared at Monza, near the end of the 1982 season, although it was not run in the race. Photo: Centro di Documentazione Storica Alfa Romeo Our rest had been interrupted by teens partying in the motel, in Syracuse on...