Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with...
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...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old....
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In America, particularly by the late fifties, we had more racetracks and more cars because we were a bigger country. Americans had more money but had no home-grown production sports cars—with...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
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,...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it might be appropriate to make readers aware of the organization’s web site. Dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the history of Team Lotus, the site offers aficionados of the...
At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the Tojeiro-Buick registration number TSU 719 was closed. A quick turn of the key to the right and a large pump of the throttle and it did! Instantly aware of the...
By the time this column is read, the second anniversary of the passing of Tom Walkinshaw will have come and...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
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...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
I’d raced the Cosworth-powered Ensign N174 at the 1974 USGP at Watkins Glen, it was my fourth time in the car and fifth Grand Prix I’d entered that season—I’d driven a March 731 at the British GP at Brands Hatch—entered by Dempster International Racing Team—but this was the first race...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine...
The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By Peter Darley Peter Darley served as Team Lotus’ official photographer during the glory days of the ’60s and ’70s, and while his images may have enjoyed widespread dissemination in period,...
The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting — held at Donington Park...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
Spring is in the air and the dawn of a new season of racing with the Historic Racing Drivers Club beckons, the first rounds scheduled for Silverstone next weekend. Prior to the racing, two full days of HRDC testing at Goodwood took place (above, Jeff Bloxham photo), beginning on Monday...
Alan Stammers grew up with the sight and sound of motor racing, the family farm bordering the Snetterton circuit in...
A new Historic Racing Festival to celebrate Snetterton’s rich motorsport heritage has been launched by Motor Racing Legends. The ‘Snetterton...
Top flight historic motorsport is coming to the UK’s Snetterton race circuit on the 16th – 17th of July for the Motor Racing Legends Snetterton Historic 200 meeting. An action-packed program of races over the weekend will see an incredible variety of historic machinery hit the track, from Pre-War Sports...
