Pat Moss-Carlsson, the younger sister of Stirling and wife of Erik, died after a long illness on October 14. She was 73. Both first-class show jumpers, it was Stirling who taught Pat to drive and that lit the fuse on an explosive 21-year driving career that saw her win the...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
Unquestionably, one of the most dominating racing cars was the Mercedes W196, particularly with drivers such as Fangio and Moss at the wheel. I remember seeing the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree, the track just outside Liverpool, England, the first time the Grand Prix had been held at a...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
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Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while John was on a brief visit to Australia. John Sprinzel What brings you to Australia, John? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping ahead of rival Juan Manuel Fangio’s Ferrari on the opening lap and staying out front the rest of the way. During his pursuit of the leader, Fangio later bent his...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
When you’re weighed down with a name like Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh, you’ve got to do something about it if you want to go motor racing, so this Siamese tongue twister became B. Bira. That was the pseudonym under which a small, doll-like grandson of King Mongkut, played by Yul...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans...
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world....
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...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1964. Peter Arundell in the second works Lotus leads Richie Ginther’s B.R.M....
Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
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Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical development of the particular car we were working with. It was long before the days of computer data logging and evaluation which is so prevalent today. So, a driver was...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
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Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born to a country postman and his wife on December 15, 1900 in Aunay-sous-Auneau, about 50 miles southwest of Paris. At 16, she broke loose from her provincial shackles and invaded...
In Monte Carlo on May 10, 1964, Jackie Stewart made one of his early international drives in this Cooper Formula...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
Georges Lemaître actually finished 2nd in the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition in this Peugeot 3hp, but was awarded victory and the posted 5000-franc prize because his ride looked more like a car than the three-wheeler that crossed the line first! Photo: Peugeot It all started as a promo for Monte...