There was a flurry of events in Italy to mark the 30th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve’s death in a crash...
The French, two-time Can-Am champion and former Ferrari F1 driver speaks with Nasir Hameed about his early days, his time...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that enpowered him to become the 1980 Formula One World Champion. Your father enjoyed a reasonable motor racing career. Was it, therefore, inevitable that you became involved in the sport? Become...
Wow Gilles!—Villeneuve, The Undying Legend By Ercole Columbo Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles...
Magazines are a funny thing. You hold in your hand the August issue, but you’re likely reading it in July...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year hiatus, and among the events supporting the featured contest on Le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was an appearance by the cars and drivers of Historic Grand Prix. HGP’s members present cars...
Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won...
Brian RedmanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Jacques Villeneuve.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in...
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....
Maranello, Italy, November 1979. The introduction of the new Ferrari 312/T5 at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track. Standing behind the new...
Hermann Lang Paul Tracy Don “The Snake” Prudhomme Peter Brock 1 The Lancia 037 rally car makes its competition debut...
Canada’s Gilles Villeneuve (1950-1982) was a driver so passionately single-minded that when watching him race one sensed that he would either win a World Championship or die trying. Sadly, the latter was his fate. Graduating from snowmobile racing to the Formula Atlantic series Villeneuve’s victory at Trois Rivieres in 1976...
Gilles Villeneuve Biography “He’s different from the rest of us, on a separate level …” Jacques Laffite describing Gilles Gilles...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver Arrows” (1934). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
Alain Prost John Surtees 5 Sir Malcolm Campbell drives his Napier-Campbell to a World Land Speed Record of 256.086 mph...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in a Gulf Mirage-Ford M1 (1967). 2 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to win the under-two-liter class of the USRRC race at Riverside, California. Jim Hall’s Chaparral wins overall...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as...
The Belgian Grand Prix; Zolder, May 13, 1979. Really trying! The wonderful Gilles Villeneuve, father of recent World Champion Jacques...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Gilles Villeneuve Biography “He’s different from the rest of us, on a separate level …” Jacques Laffite describing Gilles Gilles...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts like future Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, double Can-Am Champion Patrick Tambay, Indy 500 winners Danny Sullivan and Eddie Cheever, and FIA-GT Champion Klaus Ludwig. He got to within...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands...
It has become a given that a driver’s main rival is his teammate and I have been pondering when this idea emerged. There have been instances of teammates being very close friends and the late Chris Nixon celebrated the bond between Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins in his superb book,...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
Peter Brock Carroll Shelby 1 Stirling Moss drives a race car for the first time in over a year—since the crash that nearly killed him—in a test session at Goodwood, England. His driving is not up to his own standard, and he retires from competition (1963). 2 Driver Henri Toivonen...