1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that...
I didn’t see the accident happen, and it was many laps later when my photo trek around South Africa’s Kyalami...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age of 76. British-born Charlton, whose family emigrated to South Africa in his youth, was a regular in his home round of the F1 World Championship. His best result came at...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
September 2016 Into the first corner of the 1980 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, Jean-Pierre Jabouille’s Renault RE20 leads...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden anniversary of the Formula Junior. Special Formula Junior races will be held in New Zealand (January, Pukekoe); Australia (February, Philip Island); Italy (June 6–8, Monza); Britain (June 28–29, Brands Hatch...
On paper, the concept of former Grand Prix drivers racing each other is quite mouth-watering. Cars would have to be...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands Prix. Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney and Bruce McLaren, of course, and they won with them too, but the other was a lesser-known man hailing from the southern tip of Africa....
In the 1974 World Sportscar Championship for Makes at Kyalami, South Africa, a small racecar, built from the chassis of...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
If ever a race meeting at Kyalami captured the essence of the circuit’s most memorable races, the Classic Car Africa Kyalami 9-hour Revival managed that and then some. Everyone who was at Kyalami on Saturday November 17, left thrilled by a stunning day’s classic racing to commemorate those legendary races...
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and the Sports Car Club of South Africa will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the...
1970 Nomad-BRM Mk3 After the war years in the UK, a certain Churchillian spirit prevailed, which left many with an...
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...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 First engine ever designed by Ernst Fuhrmann, the Porsche Type 547 (Carrera), runs in Zuffenhausen for the first time (1953). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Andre Ribeiro Len Sutton 1 Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at...
Janet Guthrie Carlos Pace 1 NASCAR racer Dave Marcis is born (1941). 2 Sports car racer Nino Vacarella is born...
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 a result of my 1967 win in the Kyalami Nine Hours, in South Africa with Jacky Ickx in the...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 4 Sportscar racer Bob Wollek born (1943). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
