I started work with Lotus Components in 1960. I really wanted to join the Lotus Formula One team, but unless...
With this month’s main feature story looking at the Alpine Renaults that played a prominent role in the World Rally...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story of Alpine and Renault is a culmination of a Sherlock Homes style of research, study and investigative interviews with those luminaries who designed, built, tested, raced and had “hands on”...
The assembled gladiators, left to right: Alain Mahé, Jean-Francois Piot, Jacques Jauber, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Louis Marnat, Michele “Biche” Petit, Jean...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a road circuit near Nimes, France (1947). 3 Jody Scheckter drives a Trojan T101 to victory in the L&M Continental F5000 race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio (1973). Become a Member...
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Williams-Ford FW07B Car: Williams-Ford FW07B / Engine: Cosworth DFV 90º V8 / Maker: Williams / Bore X Stroke: 85.7 mm X 64.8...
1980 Austrian GP, Jabouille leads Jones.Photo: Maureen Magee I choose the 1980 Renault RE23 as a Greatest Racecar with a...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives each country the choice of approved chassis and engines, each one limited to 150 bhp, but everyone runs the same kit within the national series. One-spec formulae, I hate ’em....
The celebration of French culture continues at the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, with displays of the finest examples...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
September 2016 Into the first corner of the 1980 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, Jean-Pierre Jabouille’s Renault RE20 leads his teammate René Arnoux and Nelson Piquet’s Brabham BT49. Jabouille retired with a puncture while Arnoux won and Piquet finished 4th. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member...
Initially, Jean-Pierre Jabouille made his mark in France’s national Formula Three racing in 1968. Not only did he race, but...
Derek is the epitome of the driver who should have won the Formula One World Championship, but was just about...
As dawn breaks this Sunday, November 6, London’s Hyde Park will be full of the sights, sounds and smells of the past, as everyone gets ready for the sunrise start of the annual Bonhams London-to-Brighton Veteran Car Run supported by Hiscox. From 6 a.m., more than 400 veteran cars —...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
“Where have all the young teams gone?” the words of that famous song with a one word alteration could well apply to the ranks of Formula One teams since the World Championship came into being back in 1950. It is said that more than 150 teams have come and gone,...
The Royal Automobile Club has announced that the 2017 Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, supported by Hiscox, will...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
July 2017 Porsche 914 – The Racing History By Roy Smith Writing about a subject is relatively easy when there isare plenty of period pieces from which to glean information, but with little research material available and certainly no books on the subject, celebrated author Roy Smith has had the...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning...
Groupe Renault displayed four historic endurance racing prototypes (above, photo courtesy of Renault) at this year’s Retromobile Show in Paris, February 7-11, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alpine’s overall win in the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. Not only was the winning prototype, Renault Alpine A442B, on...
Fewer than 20 Renault AI 35/45 HP Runabouts were produced, and four of the five remaining 1907 racers — often called simply...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an...
Get beneath the skin of a Formula One racing car, uncover the history of Aston Martin and hear motorcycle racers and motorsport engineers in conversation as part of the autumn program of lectures at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. At “F1 Cars: An Engineering Challenge”on Saturday September 15join Steve Fenwick,...