I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I...
A special era in the history of the Porsche 917 stems from a private conversation held between Porsche team manager...
Gigi Villoresi. Jean-Marie Balestre.Photo: Ercole Colombo 1 Willi Kauhsen, driving the Bosch-sponsored Porsche 917/10, wins both heats of the Interserie race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1973). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita drive the Nova Engineering Porsche 956 to victory in the 500-kilometer Japanese Sports Car Championship race...
Check out this video featuring the 1160hp Aston Martin Valkyrie being driven hard around Hockenheimring....
Vincenzo Lancia Keith Duckworth 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago....
The French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan using an air-cooled V-8. Jo Schlesser, a 40-year old French driver of modest reputation, was called in when John Surtees decided to stay with his older V12 Honda RA 301....
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has released its schedule of events for the third year of its Golden Jubilee...
Ian Ashley Lola T330 F5000. Photo: BRDC Archive Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with...
Several thousand people attended three days of events over the weekend of April 6-8 to commemorate the 50thanniversary of Jim Clark’s death. It is testimony to the brilliant Scot’s enduring legacy that visitors travelled from New Zealand, Australia, Brazil and Japan to the Scottish Borders to pay homage. The weekend...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest. That was at Le Mans after the big crash when one of our cars was involved and the Mercedes board in Stuttgart decided to withdraw the other cars....
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race, at Phoenix, Arizona (1993). 4 Mario Andretti wins the sprint car race at Salem, Oregon, for his first United States Automobile Club victory (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
Hockenheim, Germany April 22–24, 2005 Christian Glasel’s Brabham BT49 leads Richard Eyre’s Williams into the first turn. Photo: Jim Houlgrave Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads,...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian Grand Prix,” said Gunnar Axel Arvid Nilsson. Nevertheless, he should also be remembered—in the words of Nick Jordan, mechanic to Gunnar’s rival Tony Brise in Formula Atlantic—as “one of the...
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...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger...
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.” It was March 1968, I was 10 years old, and in the pits at Brands Hatch during a test session in preparation for the BOAC 500. My father had entered...