At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the...
Spring is in the air and the dawn of a new season of racing with the Historic Racing Drivers Club...
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...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
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...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it...
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...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with...
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...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old....
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...
Alan Stammers grew up with the sight and sound of motor racing, the family farm bordering the Snetterton circuit in...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
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...
Autosport Three Hours; Snetterton, 1963 At the Autosport Three Hours race held at Snetterton on September 28, 1963, South African driver...
The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting — held at Donington Park...
The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as it aims to introduce its unique lineup to a new and broader audience of enthusiasts. The VSCC began racing some 80 years ago, its very first race meeting taking place...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine built by their company would take the motor racing world by storm. However, history shows the enormous impact the duo had, especially at the highest echelon of the sport—Formula One....
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
I’d raced the Cosworth-powered Ensign N174 at the 1974 USGP at Watkins Glen, it was my fourth time in the...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as medical officer for the Royal Air Force in Changi, Singapore, to start at the beginning of the summer. But there was a problem; I had an obsession for motor racing....
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
A new Historic Racing Festival to celebrate Snetterton’s rich motorsport heritage has been launched by Motor Racing Legends. The ‘Snetterton Historic 200’ will pay homage to the often-overlooked historical races that have been the foundation stone of the circuit that opened just over 70 years ago. The Norfolk venue is...
