Young Brazilian Nelson Piquet drove his Gordon Murray-designed Brabham BT49-Cosworth to his first Formula One victory in Long Beach on...
For the Anerley Trophy Formula Junior race at Crystal Palace on June 3, 1963, the Start of the first heat...
1969 Rennmax BN3Photo: Ian Welsh It can’t be denied that the world of motor racing, both contemporary and historic, is saturated with egos. Some would say that it’s all really driven by egos, and that is sometimes directly connected to the size of the wallet. Perhaps without such egos we...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
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...
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...
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, it became an...
As the organizers of the Bahamas Speed Week Revival work toward their ultimate aim of bringing full-blown racing back to...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
Hans-Joachim Stuck leads a pack of FVs and FSVs at the Daytona Golden Anniversary celebration.Photo: Bruce Lancaster Formula Vee celebrated...
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 favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982...
Photo: Alejandro Ibanez The man who scored Ferrari’s very first Formula One World Championship victory, Argentinian Jose Froilan Gonzalez, has...
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...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren,...
Dr. Lou Sell I got a Brabham in 1967 and it was supplied by the Russell Racing Organisation, which was...
Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco Vintage racecar driver Howard Katz has been named the third recipient of The Gorsline Cup, honored during the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Gorsline Cup is presented by Gorsline Company, the premier insurer of high-risk individuals, to the driver who best...
The name Guy Griffiths may not be familiar to many motorsports enthusiasts in the United States but in the United...
As outlined in this month’s Racecar Profile, the Formula Super Vee series served as an important rung on the racing...
Jochen Rindt Biography Rindt was born in Germany in 1942 of Austrian and German parentage. His parents died under Allied bombing in 1943 and he was taken to Graz in Austria where he was brought up by his grandparents. He took his place in the family spice importing business on...
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has...
When considering my greatest racecar, the question seems far too big for me to give a simple answer. I drove some terrific cars in my motor racing history. I suppose the ones that stand out, particularly in terms of those I had the most success in, are the Porsche 956...
Mike Costin Bill Milliken.Photo: Bentley Publishing 1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
