My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
Hockenheim, Germany April 22–24, 2005 Christian Glasel’s Brabham BT49 leads Richard Eyre’s Williams into the first turn. Photo: Jim Houlgrave...
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...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
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...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
A special era in the history of the Porsche 917 stems from a private conversation held between Porsche team manager...
Ian Ashley Lola T330 F5000. Photo: BRDC Archive Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with a taste at a racing school like Jim Russell’s the drug gets hold of you and you’re hooked for life. Following my initial grounding at the lower levels, I progressed...
I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I...
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.”...
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....
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin...
Check out this video featuring the 1160hp Aston Martin Valkyrie being driven hard around Hockenheimring....
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has released its schedule of events for the third year of its Golden Jubilee...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel Fangio around the daunting Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, but one of them was certainly a suave German named Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Strangely, he wasn’t a racing driver at all but a...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago....
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the international historic motor racing event in its first two years. The Festival will take place over the Bank Holiday weekend, May 3-5, 2013. As noted in our November issue, the Festival will...
Gigi Villoresi. Jean-Marie Balestre.Photo: Ercole Colombo 1 Willi Kauhsen, driving the Bosch-sponsored Porsche 917/10, wins both heats of the Interserie...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many false dawns with many teams, including Lotus. I did the Temparada series with Emerson Fittipaldi; the promise was, if Emerson did well, he would end up with a lot of...
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...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
Vincenzo Lancia Keith Duckworth 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). 3 Graham Hill drives a Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 330LM to victory in the 133-mile Guards Trophy Race at Brand Hatch, England (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
