Pete Lyons Occasionally here you may notice me express disdain for the twisted state modern Formula One has gotten itself...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the way. I thought I could become a decent single-seater driver in the various club events that existed at the time. I was studying Autosport one day in late 1968 and...
Over the last few weeks, preparations for the 2016 Grand Prix season have been hectic as the teams have to...
I made my first visit to the Silverstone circuit in the 1960s. It was just a mission of curiosity at first but I was soon bitten hard by the racing bug, and club racing was my staple diet for the first few years. I was particularly involved with the embryonic...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand Prix racing in the 1970s, designs seldom seen today. Many look back on this car as a total failure, forgetting the early success it had in 1976, for Jody Scheckter...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
Mike Lawrence One of the delights of Vintage Racecar is reading the small ads and being reminded of the sheer...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit “Come Together” somewhere in the back of my head. I have often used the metaphor of how some of the most interesting motor racing tales are based on an almost...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly...