This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
At the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed, to be held 2-4 July, the forest on the hillside above Goodwood House will echo to the sound of both historic and modern rally cars as the Festival showcases the greatest loose-surface driving on its exciting Forest Rally Stage. With no date conflict...
Alfa Romeo will be celebrating in real style at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed, held 2-4 July 2010, as...
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....
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched...
Goodwood announced a new addition to the Festival of Speed, a dedicated Manufacturer Preview Day called “Moving Motor Show.” Held on the ground of Goodwood Park on Thursday, 1 July 2010, the motor show preview day allows new cars buyers to not only see the very latest new car models...
Last year the annual Goodwood Revival achieved an all-time record attendance with more than 132,000 historic motor racing enthusiasts descending...
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...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 18–20, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. Fifteen races for historic cars and motorcycles were just a...
December 2009 Italian Monster Dear Editor, Beautiful job with the Cad-Alfa (also loved the Watkins Glen story and Kessler interview). The three Torrey Pines photos were all taken at the July meet, not the December ’52 one, which I know not only because I took one of them, but because...
The Earl of March confirmed the theme of the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed – provisionally to be held on...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo:...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival announced the provisional 2010 dates for these hugely popular annual events. The 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed is provisionally scheduled to take place over the weekend...
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003, the first classic car Ms Felstead ever painted was at...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 3–5, 2009...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of the Festival of Speed “garden party” held in the grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex. Sponsors may have tightened their belts, but the paying public had prebooked in record...
Story and Photos by Ed McDonough The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. 15 races for historic...
A record number of motor racing enthusiasts and retro-fashion fans flocked to the Goodwood Revival on September 18-20, 2009 to...
Julian Bronson mastered his monstrous McLaren M1B to win the final race of the 2009 Goodwood Revival meeting – a full year after he almost destroyed the car in last year’s Whitsun Trophy. The first half of the race was run under the safety car after Paul Knapfield’s Lola T70...
The Goowood Tourist Trophy was a three-hour endurance race for World Championship sports cars, and later for GT cars. This...
Named after the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Richmond Formula 1 race was traditionally for contemporary F1 cars. It...
The Glover Trophy was originally presented to the winner of the Richmond Formula 1 race, which was for contemporary F1 machinery. At the Goodwood Revival, the Glover Trophy is for post-1961 Formula 1 and Formula 1-based Tasman cars. The 2009 Goodwood Revival saw veteran charger Martin Stretton keep Frank Sytner...
Although there was never a race called the Brooklands Trophy in Goodwood’s heyday, it was not unusual to see pre-war...
Nicky Leventis and Bobby Verdon-Roe claimed a resounding Lavant Cup victory, the latter anchoring the win with an epic drive...
Wayne Gardner took his customary win in the second half of the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy, riding John-Lee Pemberton’s Matchless with his usual élan. Ian Bain made the best start with a ten ’bike-length lead by the time all the riders first arrived at St. Mary’s but he soon dropped...
