October 17–18 brought a trip back in time for some of Britain’s F3 stars of the late 1960s and early...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” In case you’ve missed it (or more likely, lost interest in caring), Formula One...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula...
September 2009 Led away from the start by Graham Hill’s Rondel Racing Brabham BT36, the field for the August 30,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered by American production-line V-8 engines of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race organizers, and team owners...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
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My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series....
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater 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...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500...
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style” cars powered by 5-liter, normally aspirated, V-8 engines. In its heyday, in the mid-1970s, F5000 attracted big-name drivers like Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, Sr., Jody Scheckter, and Brian Redman, piloting...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the same time, both distressing and a pleasure to write about him. I make absolutely no apology for admitting that he was my last “hero” in Formula One racing. Nobody else...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula 1 World Championship (twice) and the CART title with a record in both—that reads like any self-respecting Walter Mitty’s wish list. He won 14 Grands Prix—not to mention non-title “oddments”...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
May 2007 Double V-8 Dear Editor, I really enjoyed the Zephyr Special story in the February issue of Vintage Racecar and was thrilled to see mention of Eldred Norman’s Double V-8. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the Double V-8 racing in its heyday, but I can give some details from when...
One of the best cars I have driven is the Alfa Romeo 155 V-6 Ti which I used to compete...
A friend phoned saying he had been offered a CTG, and the vendor claimed it had been designed by Len...
The Race of Champions; Brands Hatch, March 19, 1972. A superb shot of Ronnie Peterson in the experimental (too bad it didn’t work) March 721X braking hard for Druids. Note that his right front wheel is locked and smoking. This non championship event sported a mixture of F1 and F5000...
