1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic on Jochen Rindt’s car—he was now the number one driver for Gold Leaf Team Lotus. Eddie Dennis was the number one mechanic and my immediate boss. As a mechanic, I...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake of this piece I’ll restrict it to a few lines to give readers a glimpse into my view of a truly great character and a very good friend. As boys,...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK October 17, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Subscriber-exclusive Photo Gallery from the VSCC’s April 13-14, Formula Vintage Festival at Silverstone, with the HGPCA, HRDC and Benjafield’s Bentleys....
Tazio Nuvolari John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
Tim McGrane is the Executive Director of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in Danville, California. VR: How did you get started in cars? I assume as a child. You grew up in the UK, correct? TM: I did. I grew up in Kent, southeast England about two miles from Brands Hatch....
The year 2008 marks the 50th Anniversary of this unique and famous marque, the founder, Major Arthur Mallock, having sold...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
1955 Le Mans-Winning Jaguar D-type Chassis XKD 505 The temptation is to dissolve into a wave of superlatives…that would not be a problem. Chassis XKD 505 won the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours with Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb behind the wheel, the race remembered for motor racing’s worst accident....
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to get interested in motor racing and think of how I could design a racing car. I was always, and still am, fascinated by the technicalities of racing car design and...
1952 Ferrari 500/625 Ascari. Taruffi. Villoresi. Farina. Hawthorn. Trintignant. Maglioli. Gonzales. Mieres. Whitehead. Siracusa. Pau. Marseilles. Bremgarten. Sables d’Olonne. Naples....
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started another of Porsche’s amazing periods of domination, this time in long-distance racing in the Group C and IMSA categories. Having decided that they wanted to win races outright rather than...
My greatest racecar has to be the D-Type Jaguar. Of course, when I drove my greatest racecar it was fairly...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Porsche 924, the car that would ease Porsche out...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s 72nd annual race meeting at Silverstone – an institution on the British club motor-racing calendar – saw another day of fantastic racing at its very best, albeit behind closed doors, on Saturday August 22. Bentleys of all ages – many raced by club members – shared...
On a bleak day in November 1983, I was at Silverstone. Ken Tyrrell had promised a test drive to the...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if I was right about that, but I do remember some of its characteristics pretty well. The power range was about a 1,000 revs, maybe 1,200 maximum, and that meant it...
When the greats of historic motoring racing reappear at Silverstone in July for the Silverstone Classic, many fans will have...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver, was an only child and had been influenced very much by my grandfather’s love of motoring. I remember one day my grandfather arrived driving a wonderful Ferrari 365 GT 2+2....