In this month’s feature article, we pay tribute to one of Britain’s oldest racing circuits, Donington Park. Founded in 1931...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the Aug. 8–10, 2020, Driver Appreciation Event at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway. # 16 –...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never mind that I never actually saw him race an F1 car, not for real. But I believe I know what I would have seen. That’s because I grew up feasting...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC...
No fewer than 20 4-cylinder Morgans—a potentially record turnout—have been invited to compete for the Morgan Techniques Trophy at the two-day Bentley Drivers Club 60th Anniversary meeting scheduled for Silverstone on August 8-9. Morgans of all shapes and sizes will also be out in force for the Power Torque Morgan...
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with professional race car driver, Max Hanratty. As part of the Fast MD...
The Anglo-European Trophy, Brands Hatch, September 14, 1963. Tim Mayer was a very talented young American driver and the brother...
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the disturbing news of Michael Schumacher’s December accident. While snow skiing, off piste, on a backcountry trail, Schumacher fell and struck his head against a rock. While he was wearing a helmet at the time, the force of the blow was significant enough to...
Umberto Maglioli stands beside his Porsche 550A and looks up from the pits during a break in open practice for...
Pete Lyons Way back in the Science Fiction period of my youth, I followed a newspaper strip whose title I can’t recall for sure, but it was something like “Alternate Earth.” That’s a common Sci-Fi theme with innumerable variations; this one’s premise involved a duplicate of our planet orbiting diametrically...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
Nearly 12 years ago, Parker Johnstone walked away from a strong career as a professional Indy car driver with 2...
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Robert Newman You might well ask “Who the hell’s he?” when you read the name at the top of the...
Longtime readers of this magazine will know that we have been one of the few publications—of any kind or genre—that...
August 2004 Champions Forever—The Formula One Drivers This 2002 DVD was originally titled the more lurid “Quick and the Dead” when it was first released in the 1970s, and it is truly a ’70s piece of motor racing nostalgia, with a considerable helping of bad taste. Stacy Keach, in typically...
Vintage Racecar and Historica Racewear, in association with the British Women Racing Drivers’ Club (BWRDC), have introduced the “Champion of...
There are many racing drivers, a lesser quantity of great racing drivers, and a very small number who transcend mere...
Pete Lyons THIS IS OLD news to you, but as I write, we mountain folk are still buzzing about February’s Great Manhunt and Shootout. That burning cabin you saw on TV was about half an hour by road from us in Big Bear—fewer than six miles in a direct line...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
Mike Lawrence Here is a question to ponder: when was there last welding equipment in a Formula One pitlane, or...
October 2009 Fast Ladies By Jean-Françoise Bouzanquet Women play the most crucial role in human life as mothers of us all, and many have enjoyed starring roles as monarchs throughout history, but too many have lived lives subservient to their men. In racing, however, this reality ensures that a woman...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
Safe Is Fast is a site presented by the Road Racing Drivers Club and supported by the FIA Institute for...
If you think about the classic car community, as a whole it is obsessed with categorizing things. It’s difficult to be just a “Car Guy.” When we talk about people within the community, we say he’s a “Ferrari Guy” or he’s a “Muscle Car Guy” or he’s a “Concours Guy”...
You know the eternal pub debate about who is the greatest driver ever, or which was the greatest drive? I’m...