The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that enpowered him to become the 1980 Formula One World Champion. Your father enjoyed a reasonable motor racing career. Was it, therefore, inevitable that you became involved in the sport? Become...
Pete Lyons The year was 1970. The year the ground turned over under America’s greatest sports racing car series. It...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice became the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
The BRM Years Tony Southgate Photo: Pete Austin Last November we began an ongoing series of interviews with Tony Southgate, the English designer whose lengthy résumé includes stints with some of the most prominent teams in the sport across a variety of disciplines. In this second installment, Mike Jiggle talks with...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in...
Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons Jovicus “Hill of Jupiter.” Whatever the origin of its name, this hill that overlooks Barcelona’s harbor has been known as Montjuic for more than a thousand years. Now using the...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
The stars are beginning to align in preparation for the 2012 Donington Historic Festival on May 5–6, with early entrants...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin Toward the end of my first period with Shadow, things weren’t working out too well, money was getting tight and I couldn’t really get on with my job, as I wanted to. There were cutbacks here and there, and it made life difficult. There were lots...
The second Historic Festival took place at Donington Park in the English Midlands over the weekend of May 5–6. The...
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
A record, sellout crowd of 149,000 poured into the Goodwood Circuit, near Chichester in West Sussex, England, last weekend for...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada. Although governed by a basic set of rules—the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements—there were no...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows” (1934). 3 Dave MacDonald drives a Shelby King Cobra to victory in the USRRC race at Augusta, Georgia (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
On May’s first weekend, Vintage Racecar’s European team was on hand to greet many subscribers and friends, old and new,...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his...
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had handily claimed the championship, though Don Nichols’ dark and mysterious Shadow cars were finally beginning to live up to the promise they had shown over the preceding three years. No...