Two Ross Brawn-designed cars were to play a big part in my racing career, both were formidable contenders and race...
Available at Bonham’s Scottsdale auction is chassis no. 56 “F1 Show car” built by Ferrari S.p.A. to celebrate the Schumacher...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus circuit near Berlin. But by the end of 1936, he was the king of all he surveyed—the 1936 European Champion, with six Grand Prix victories to his credit. All scored...
On February 3, Thursday, Bonhams Les Grandes Marques à Paris Sale will be offering a couple of motor cars that...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
Alfonso de Portago Michael Schumacher Photo: Mercedes-Benz 1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The others won eight Formula One World Championships between them, but even with 11 GP victories to his credit, Felipe hasn’t made it yet. He almost did in a 2008 mind...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to do so. I had to wait until I was eighteen and a half years old, mainly because my family was not involved in the motorcycle trade or racing. When I...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming the new Jim Clark. His rise to fame, however, came to a sudden—even if temporary—standstill after a horrendous 10-car, 150 mph Formula 3000 accident while driving Jordan Racing’s Reynard-Ford Cosworth...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family...
Mick Schumacher drove his father Michael’s Mercedes-AMG W02 F1 car at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard. He wore his father’s helmet and overalls, creating an emotional sight for the spectators and did some donuts as well!...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both...
Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity...
Have you ever stopped to add up all of the different driver nationalities in motor racing and perhaps spotted a trend? It is an interesting study. As the world has shrunk travel-wise, so the mobility of younger people has opened up many an opportunity to them—which is by no means...
There was something missing from the recent Olympics—motor sport. I can think of no good reason why, when we have...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did not enter competition himself until age 23 after attending a racing school. Working his way up the ladder of the sport he eventually found himself racing both in Formula One...
In the summer of 1980, I was at Goodwood for a test session. Before I reached the pits, I bumped...
April 2010 Racing for Mercedes-Benz By Hartmut Lehbrink With the re-entry of Mercedes-Benz into Grand Prix racing as a factory...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story of Alpine and Renault is a culmination of a Sherlock Homes style of research, study and investigative interviews with those luminaries who designed, built, tested, raced and had “hands on”...