Jean-Pierre Jarier Jim Hall 2 Giancarlo Baghetti wins the French Grand Prix (1961). 2 Future F1 racer Piers Courage meets...
Alan Jones Tazio Nuvolari 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a practice crash for the...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road race in the United States is run through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York (1948). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Jackie Oliver Nigel Mansell 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a crash during practice for...
The British Grand Prix; Silverstone, July 10, 1965. Tire smoke fills the air as the field moves off with Jackie...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of green machines since I saw my first Jaguar. And MG. Triumph. Morgan. Lotus. Aston Martin. Austin-Healey. Bentley. Lister. Allard. Cooper. Lola. Jensen. Turner. Elva. Sunbeam. Singer. TVR. AC—as a youth...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars will be gathering for what promises to be a unique and stirring event at Donington Park in the UK. The weekend of May 18–20 is when GPLive brings together the...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice for the nonchampionship Mexican Grand Prix (1962). 2 The Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California, to announce the formation of the Bud...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
July 2008 Gentleman Jack By Graham Gauld If you know who Jack Sears is, this book will fill in all...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Nearly 12 years ago, Parker Johnstone walked away from a strong career as a professional Indy car driver with 2 years left on a lucrative contract. Why? Frankly, he had turned to “almost despising”—his words—the sport he once loved. Pete Lyons But vintage racing has made him a fan again....
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
The French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as well as its railway works. Now, it is best known as the birthplace of the little man who beat the world four times. For Alain Marie Pascal Prost, who was...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and Jane Surtees have expressed true heartache about the shocking death of young Henry Surtees. Their 18-year-old son, a very promising driver, died July 19th in a freak racing accident. A...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Driving the Panhard-powered Nichols-Special, Jean Pierre Molerus captured the Puckett Cup Sunday, October 3, 2010 at the CSRG Charity Challenge at Infineon Raceway in Sears Point, California. The Over the Hill Gang’s Puckett Cup is an award for under-850-cc displacement specials and production cars that have run in the SCCA’s H modified...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at this month’s cover car and thought, “Hmm, I wouldn’t mind something like that!” And therein lies the predicament. Having done numerous surveys and questionnaires of our readership, we know that...