If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
One of my favorite automotive books is Doug Nye’s “Motor Racing Mavericks”. Published in 1975, it explores failures—high-end failures—in Grand Prix and IndyCar racing. “Failures” is a harsh word to apply to some; no turbine car won at Indy, but in 1967 Parnelli Jones came within three laps of victory...
Formula One designer and March Engineering co-founder Robin Herd has passed away at the age of 80. After graduating from...
What’s the single most important component, for maximal performance, on a racecar? The engine? Suspension? In the grand scheme of...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be twoseaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements,...
More than 14,200 motoring enthusiasts at the Footman James Sywell Classic Pistons and Props enjoyed a rare treat when the...
Famed motorsports designer and engineer Adrian Newey will be reunited with a racecar he designed and ran at Daytona International...
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 five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
Attendees at next weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to reflect upon 60 years of racing history at...
Looking back, I’m tempted to regard the Mo Nunn-designed Theodore N183, as my greatest racecar. It was one of the...
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“Where have all the young teams gone?” the words of that famous song with a one word alteration could well...
Casey Annis (Editor) Photo: Dan R Boyd At the end of January, I was asked if I’d speak at the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Championship for Drivers, in the world’s most technically...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
In this age of hi-tech carbon fiber car and aircraft construction, wood may now seem an odd material to use,...
February 2017 This is Rolf Stommelen at the Loew’s Hairpin during the Monaco Grand Prix on May 14,1972. He’s driving the Eifelland, which was in reality a somewhat modified March 721. Stommelen qualified last of the allowed 25 starters, and was even then fortunate to make the field because the...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with impeccable racing pedigrees, or others that have an interesting history. This month, our profile of the 1977 LEC CRP1 F1 car is more about the determination of racing driver David...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra....
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing cars with identical engines. The idea for this low-budget formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at...
I first watched Niki Lauda as he “learned his trade” in his days with March and BRM, before he won...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
Over the last few weeks, preparations for the 2016 Grand Prix season have been hectic as the teams have to pass their safety checks and manage all the other schedules, documentation, travel arrangements, etc. These all have to be completed before they can start the new season. Whatever the excitement...