After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
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,...
One stop shop for road, rally or track performance In the UK, Northampton is one of those towns that is...
Masha Pasichnyk is a 23-year-old artist from Kiev, Ukraine, who is visiting the USA at present. Her interest in car...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and Ford GT40s (Marks I, II and IV) all over the world, Phil Remington stood on the leading edge of racing technology for some seven decades until his peaceful...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family...
One of the legendary 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix cars raced by five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio will be...
Photo: Alejandro Ibanez The man who scored Ferrari’s very first Formula One World Championship victory, Argentinian Jose Froilan Gonzalez, has died at the age of 90 in Buenos Aires. Gonzalez, nicknamed the Pampas Bull for his physical presence and his muscular driving style, made his F1 debut in 1950 at...
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...
As you’ll read on the Vintage Roadcar side of the magazine this month, I recently had a very interesting and...
October 2016 • Dan Gurney is this year’s recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his role in founding All American Racers and subsequently building Eagle racing cars for more than 30 years. Gurney was honored at a Can-Am Tribute dinner during the Rolex Monterey Motorsport...
Stirling Moss accepts congratulations upon winning the 1956 Grand Prix of Bari in his works Maserati 300S.Photo: Maserati Archive Maserati...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating 20 years since the first event in 1993. Unbelievably, the target audience for the inaugural Festival was a mere 5,000, but to the utter amazement of Lord March and others involved, more than 25,000 people turned up. However, many of those who attended...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
As outlined in this month’s Racecar Profile, the Formula Super Vee series served as an important rung on the racing...
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...
Mike Lawrence At the end of last year, I moved from Chichester to Oxford or, to put it in terms...
A special added feature of Silverstone’s April 21-21 VSCC Spring Start meeting will be a recreation of the historic Commander...
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...
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
One of the things that comes up is a little record I am very proud of that there are only four people in the world, to my knowledge, who have taken part in the Olympics and in a World Championship Grand Prix event. One of the others was Alphonso de...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
Marc Surer March-BMW 792 Nürburgring.Photo: BRDC I came from a family of Swiss farmers, which is not really the ideal...
He was known as “the Silver Fox,” “the Racing Grandfather,” and “Merle the Magician.” These nicknames might indicate a gentlemanly racer, older than most of his peers, who raced for fun. His silver hair, glasses and relaxed demeanor fit the nicknames, but underneath that calm exterior beat the heart of...