April 2018 Jackie Oliver prepares to take the Gulf Mirage M2-Ford out for practice prior to the 1969 running of...
Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone to offer me a drive in one. My job gives me a very nice opportunity of driving historic racing cars for Renault. I get to drive many of their fantastic...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Karl Kling Mark DonohuePhoto: Hal Crocker 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race at Skarpnack...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win...
The 1982 Porsche 956 was a car that we started with a clean sheet of paper. Everything was new, the...
The April 13 RRDC Evening with Jacky Ickx Presented by Firestone was filled with amusing racing stories, heartfelt emotions, mutual...
VRJ caught up with the Belgian former GP and sports car driver at a Spa track day where Ickx was putting in many laps in a Ferrari 312PB–in fact the very car that he had raced in the 1970s and that we test drove back in January of this year....
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
A coveted pair of GT40s, including a 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight (chassis P/1074), and a strikingly authentic, unrestored 1967...
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...
Louis Wagner Gaston Chevrolet 2 Jacky Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand...
Four celebrated legends from the 24 Hours of Le Mans top a star-studded lineup of speakers appearing at the inaugural...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in a Gulf Mirage-Ford M1 (1967). 2 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to win the under-two-liter class of the USRRC race at Riverside, California. Jim Hall’s Chaparral wins overall...
1967 Ferrari 312 Chassis 0007 After the smaller 1.5-liter Grand Prix cars of 1961–’65, the return to a larger engine...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several F1 teams, is born (1956). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda president and CEO, is born (1936). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races from 1970 to 1973. Ayrton Senna drove 98T/4 in eight races and several test sessions in 1986. These cars were the very first and the very last John Player Specials…they...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky...
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