Alan Stammers grew up with the sight and sound of motor racing, the family farm bordering the Snetterton circuit in...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
The Guards International Trophy Race, Snetterton, Good Friday, April 4, 1969. Paul Hawkins in his Lola T70 Mk3B leads the similar Sid Taylor-entered car of Brian Redman through Coram Curve. Hawkins won the race after a fine battle with Redman, who retired with engine trouble. Tragically, the popular Australian former...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched...
Spring is in the air and the dawn of a new season of racing with the Historic Racing Drivers Club...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or no period history. Having said that, I am always curious to investigate the background of interesting cars. The who, why, what and heritage of a vehicle sometimes holds an intriguing...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old....
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
By the time this column is read, the second anniversary of the passing of Tom Walkinshaw will have come and gone. In my career, I must have shared more drives with him than any other driver. You could say there were two Tom Walkinshaws. In fact, on reflection, there were...
I’d raced the Cosworth-powered Ensign N174 at the 1974 USGP at Watkins Glen, it was my fourth time in the...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s swashbuckler and would not have looked out of place swinging down from the rigging of a man o’ war, sword in hand, instead of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Fantasy perhaps, but...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was...
Top flight historic motorsport is coming to the UK’s Snetterton race circuit on the 16th – 17th of July for...
Autosport Three Hours; Snetterton, 1963 At the Autosport Three Hours race held at Snetterton on September 28, 1963, South African driver Bob Olthoff pressed on aggressively with his AC Cobra, even though it was not yet a match for the Ferrari GTOs. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204,...
A new Historic Racing Festival to celebrate Snetterton’s rich motorsport heritage has been launched by Motor Racing Legends. The ‘Snetterton...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
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...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as...
The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting — held at Donington Park on April 23, 1938 — with a Formula Vintage Historic Festival befitting the occasion. The Festival will take place at Donington on Sunday June 24 and mark the VSCC’s return...
