I first watched Niki Lauda as he “learned his trade” in his days with March and BRM, before he won...
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent example of this phenomenon took place at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion when BMW North America chief Ludwig Willisch drove a 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL—one of the five team cars...
Equipe Classic Racing is planning to launch a new competition class in 2018, especially for Pre-1963 GT and Production racing...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age or other circumstances, how to fill the time is an initial worry. Author Mike Allen’s project to fill his time was to research the Oulton Park International Gold Cup races....
November 2006 Delahaye—Styling and Design By Richard S. Adatto and Diana E. Meredith The noted French manufacturer Delahaye began manufacturing...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar Championship-winning team of 1959, it seemed reasonable to speak with another racer who worked in that fabled John Wyer-run team, Rex Woodgate. Woodgate is a notoriously detail-oriented mechanic who became...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been a ladder for potential Grand Prix drivers to climb to qualify, or rather amass the necessary skill set/finance, to be able to race at the top level. Obviously, like all...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
A brand-new series of historic races, for the Sir Stirling Moss Trophy, has been launched by Motor Racing Legends (MRL). Inspired by the success of the one-off race bearing Moss’s name at the Algarve in October, the new series will be for genuine, pre-1961 sports cars and sports racers. “The...
1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus...
The 2010 Tour Britannia had a small but very competitive entry in both the regularity and competition sections, the former...
The Vintage Sports Car Club’s new Formula Vintage series enjoyed a second triumphant outing on the weekend of June 10-11, despite the weather’s best efforts to disrupt the track action throughout the afternoon at Oulton Park on the Saturday. Following the great success of the Club’s inaugural Formula Vintage event...
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The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as...
The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting — held at Donington Park on April 23, 1938 — with a Formula Vintage Historic Festival befitting the occasion. The Festival will take place at Donington on Sunday June 24 and mark the VSCC’s return...
Oulton Park, UK June 10, 2006 Hubert Fabri neatly negotiates Lodge Corner in his beautifully prepared Aston Martin DBR4.Photo: Paul...
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