2024 marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most spectacular successes in the history of international motorsport. With Irishman...
It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans in an MG. The Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper S came along and they became world beaters in every racing and rallying competition category they entered. This was due to...
Today, I believe, drivers are arriving in Formula One far too early in their racing career. The top echelon of...
As a young mechanic Tony Robinson answered an ad for work with London’s Ray Martin Motors. Little did he know...
Chester to Monte Carlo November 20 -25, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 25–31, 2007 Choc’s BMW 2002 Tii.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
1934 MG Q-type The story of how, in 1923, the first MG—under the guidance of Cecil Kimber—grew from the Bullnose Morris car is well known. The secret of success for MG was that it was able to supply light, open cars at highly competitive prices. Known as the M.G. Super...
The name of Noel Macklin is writ large in the history of British sporting cars. Marques such as Eric-Campbell, Silver...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 22, 1955. The start of a dramatic race. Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling...
Quadruple Monte Carlo Rallye winner Walter Röhrl dominated December’s FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars event in the Spanish town of Lloret de Mar. The two-time World Rally Champion teamed with four-time German Rally Champion Peter Göbel in a 1981 Porsche 911 RSR to claim the victory. The pair...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
Vic Elford is this year’s recipient of the Phil Hill Award from the Road Racing Drivers Club. RRDC President Bobby...
December 2008 Birdcage Buzz Dear Editor, Your magazines arrived today and they certainly look like a lot of fun. Incidentally, Stirling [Moss] drove that Camoradi Maser Birdcage at the 1960 Sebring where I drove Donald Healey’s little Falcon-bodied Sprite. He lapped me about every seven laps, with a cheerful wave...
The statistics alone grab your attention. Those who travel the furthest—from Oslo—have 3,500 kilometers to drive; the rest, from Barcelona,...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In addition to the 2-door hardtops—called saloons by the factory—a series of open sports cars, actually sports racers (later called sports racing cars), were constructed, raced by the factory and sold...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One,...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those horrific things are said to have happened to Captain Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams, Grand Prix winner, member of the wartime ultra-secret French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive and French...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk Motor...
We’re spectating on a rally special stage. The Monte Carlo, Britain’s RAC, the Acropolis in Greece. Anywhere, it doesn’t matter which. We’re halfway up a gentle roadside embankment stamping our almost numb feet and rubbing shoulders with dozens of other rally fans, waiting. It’s dark, cold, the bottle of whiskey...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 27-February 3, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Our Ed McDonough spoke with Patrick Tambay at the start of this year’s Monte Carlo Historic Rally, followed his progress...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 4, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 26–February 1, 2006 The team of Craff/Wibaux corner their Alpine 1600S on the Col de Pertuis.Photo:...
There is always an argument at the Monte Carlo Historic Rally as to whether the drivers or the cars are the stars. Fortunately, 2005 saw a good mix of both. Formula One was represented by Erik Comas, who was driving one of the Alpine A110s prepared by his own company,...
