Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations,...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that was mistakenly labeled. This 3-minute video segment features racing legend Frank Gardner taking the viewer on a lap of Oulton Park, in 1973. The quality of the video is excellent...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the ravages of time. As I sat in the church at the funeral of John Surtees—listening to the wonderful tributes from his daughters Leonora and Edwina, as well as a most...
Photo: Chris Mann This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand in most of motor racing’s varied formulae, and with a number of famous names of the track. He has probably forgotten more about the sport than many care to remember....
The Jaguar Classic Challenge returns in 2017 with two brand-new events confirmed in the five-race series for pre-1966 Jaguars (Malcolm...
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his attention toward North America. Even though he would still contest a number of major races in Europe, the main focus of his competitive efforts turned toward the USA where he...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever...
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George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined...
In the late 1960s—1969 I think—I started racing motorbikes in local races in Belgium. Not too powerful machines, just 50-cc,...
The rolling celebration of the 40th anniversary since Derek Bennett created the Chevron marque pitched up at its spiritual home at Oulton Park’s Gold Cup event in Northeast England on August 28–29. Two races for closed- and one for open-wheeled Chevrons headed a traditionally varied Historic Sports Car Club program....
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer...
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...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
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