When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
Launched at the Earl’s Court Motor Show 50 years ago in October 1957, the Lotus Elite captured the attention of the international press for its styling, advanced design and revolutionary glass fiber monocoque construction. Its subsequent racing successes in the hands of the likes of Jim Clark, Les Leston, John...
Silverstone, UK February 24, 2007 The Vauxhall Magnum of Adrian Goding.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The Silverstone Classic, to be held July 28–30, on the 3.1-mile Grand Prix circuit will feature an impressive roster of...
Silverstone, UK April 21, 2007 Martin Redmond’s Jaguar SS100 leads Tony Seber’s Wolseley Hornet Special out of Becketts.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads,...
I guess the best period in motor racing for me was when I managed to have my first drives in...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about his career and motor racing in general. He was very helpful when VR’s European Editor asked him to contribute to his Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, and he was just...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G2 The author gets up to speed on the banking of England’s Rockingham Speedway. Photo: Mike Jiggle...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy of Motor Sport. Many years later, I was chatting with James Weaver at Silverstone, who said, “Bloody Denis Jenkinson, it’s thanks to him I’m in my current mess.” In 1957,...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started...
The seventh running of the very popular Walter Hayes Trophy for Kent-engined Formula Ford cars takes place at Silverstone from November 2–4. The 2006 Trophy was won by Peter Dempsey in a Ray GRS06. Last year, 164 cars took part, while the field has increased each season. The event is...
Silverstone staged its annual festival for historic racers with some 600 cars taking part in 20 races over the last...
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.”...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the same time, both distressing and a pleasure to write about him. I make absolutely no apology for admitting that he was my last “hero” in Formula One racing. Nobody else...
The British Grand Prix; Silverstone, June 20, 1963. Graham Hill really trying hard with his BRM 57 absolutely on the...
On a bleak day in November 1983, I was at Silverstone. Ken Tyrrell had promised a test drive to the...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was still a Formula One newcomer. The Toleman team had been struggling for three years and had only begun to get a few results toward the end of 1983. While the...
Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts like future Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, double Can-Am Champion Patrick Tambay, Indy 500 winners Danny Sullivan and Eddie Cheever, and FIA-GT Champion Klaus Ludwig. He got to within...