Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
Brooklands Museum, the home of British motor racing, is celebrating the life of one of the UK’s greatest racing drivers, Sir Stirling Moss, with a special event featuring over 35 of Moss’s cars. The one-off event, to be held on Sunday, September 12, will include live demonstrations of cars raced...
The legendary Sir Stirling Moss, who passed away at Easter 2020, will be commemorated at Goodwood’s headline motorsport events in...
The Goodwood Motor Circuit will forever be associated with Sir Stirling Moss, and Goodwood’s one-time only event next month –...
Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and hero Stirling Moss. As the director of Public Relations for Pirelli for many years, Robert worked with Moss on a variety of projects and came to know both Moss and...
Sir Stirling Moss was not only a special friend of Vintage Road & Racecar, but for several years he was one...
The final lap has been run and the chequered flag has fallen on the life and time of a man...
It was a word-of-mouth, invitation-only affair organized by his lovely wife Susie and a friend without Stirling Moss knowing a thing about it. No mean feat, considering about 400 people attended the celebration. How Susie kept the party from her husband I’ll never know, except that all the invitees were...
Stirling Moss, in his Vanwall, during the 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree, on July 20. Moss retired the car...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I was interested in cars from an early age. Indeed, my father had a couple of garage dealerships, one with Ford and the other with BMC, or British Leyland as it...
The year 2015 marked the 60th anniversary of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson’s victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, racing...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man...
November 2017 Great Cars no: 10 – Lotus 18, The Autobiography of Stirling Moss’s ‘912’ by Ian Wagstaff In a little more than two years, the Porter Press Great Cars series of books has already got my bookshelves groaning under the strain, from the first published in May 2015, which documents...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie beneath the surface. He raced from the mid-1950s to around 1962, but he gave it all up for his business of selling cars in London, Ontario, Canada. Here was a...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that it will be offering a once-in-a-lifetime group of Aston Martins at its flagship Monterey auction...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
Major Anthony Peter Roylance Rolt, Military Cross and Bar, had a philosophy. After surviving the Second World War, in which he almost died several times and won two Military Crosses, one of Britain’s highest awards for bravery, he reasoned that the rest of his life would be a bonus. So,...
May 2017 During the Sussex Trophy Race at Goodwood, on April 7, 1958, Archie Scott Brown keeps the works Lister-Jaguar...
Don Garlits Ayrton Senna Photo: Bury Mason 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South...
February 2017 Bruce McLaren – From the Cockpit By Bruce McLaren Although in very recent years the domination of the McLaren F1 Racing Team has faded in the wake of the dominant Red Bull and Mercedes outfits, there is a certain reverence to the name and the team. Over time,...
Some people do; some people don’t. Some people enjoy it; some people don’t. Driving in the rain, that is. Apart...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first Formula One World Championship, in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 2 Craig Breedlove sets a new Land Speed Record in the Spirit of America Sonic 1 at Bonneville by running 555.48 mph/888.76...
