John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses around his home city of Coventry. Despite having good qualifications and being at the epicenter of the UK car industry, he was rejected first by Jaguar and then initially by...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and...
I remember talking to John Surtees a couple of years ago, and our conversation revolved around his many successes. With...
Jean-Pierre Jarier Jim Hall 2 Giancarlo Baghetti wins the French Grand Prix (1961). 2 Future F1 racer Piers Courage meets his future F1 team owner, Frank Williams (1961). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
Don Garlits Ayrton Senna Photo: Bury Mason 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in Victoria, Australia (1987). Henry Seagrave drives the Golden Arrow to a new one-mile land speed record at Daytona Beach. Photo: Pete Austin 3 • Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to...
Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One motor race. Not to mention 14 victories in the heart-in-your-mouth Isle of Man TT. So he quickly earned himself the nickname of “Mike the Bike.” If the truth were told,...
As I write these notes, the 2015 season is coming to an end with just a few more Formula One...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a government official he spent much of his childhood in the Brazilian capital, Brasília. At the age of 14 he was participating in kart races and was crowned Brazilian kart champion...
Eddie Rickenbacker Soichiro Honda 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 F1 World Champion Alan...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). 3 George Follmer wins the SCCA Trans-Am race at Riverside, California in an AMC Javelin (1971). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road...
Nearly 12 years ago, Parker Johnstone walked away from a strong career as a professional Indy car driver with 2...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting in any environment, but here, at Pau, in the Parc Beaumont, the noise bounced around between the Armco barrier and the park benches, but then was trapped under the trees...
Peter Bourassa is the Publisher of the weekly MMR Community Newsletter and the online Motorsports Marketing Resources Directory (www.MMRsite.com) a...
July 2008 Gentleman Jack By Graham Gauld If you know who Jack Sears is, this book will fill in all...
The 2012 edition of Race Retro will be held 24-26 February at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, UK. The historic motorsports show will celebrate the Porsche marque, thirty years of the Group C Porsche 956 and thirty years of the Honda Racing Corporation. Porsche is Race Retro’s chosen car marque for 2012....
In an era when Lewis Hamilton and Sebastien Vettel brook no challenge from team mates and examples of ‘win at...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the World Endurance Championship race at Spa, Belgium. The Martini LC2 of Bob Wolleck, Mauro Baldi, and Ricardo Patrese is awarded the win after the race is stopped (1985). 2 Bill...