Photo: Mercedes-Benz USA The 20th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 13-15, 2015, will honor Sir Stirling Moss,...
The enjoyment of Lime Rock Park’s 32nd Historic Festival was muted somewhat by the tragic loss of veteran vintage racer...
Tony RobinsonPhoto: Ian Wagstaff At the end of last year I lost a true friend, Ken Gregory. Ken was one of the most logistically aware businessman I’ve ever come across. He was the organizer behind Stirling Moss, Stirling Moss Limited, the British Racing Partnership (BRP) and manager to many other...
Jules Goux John FitchPhoto: Mercedes 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near...
Concours d’elegance winner Roy Powell Aston Martin DB2-4 Mk111.Photo: Mark Constanduros “Wonderful venue and fantastic people,” that was the comment...
Photo: Mike Jiggle It is almost safe to say that a Maserati saved the Grand Prix career of a promising young Stirling Moss. Sir Stirling went on to race Maseratis over a seven-year period, and was a factory driver during late 1954 and 1956. Ian Wagstaff sat down with him...
Mark Knopfler driving his Maserati 300S in the Maserati Centenary Trophy race at Donington. Photo: Pete Austin As a boy,...
Photo: Tony Todd Sir Stirling Moss is set to be the honored guest at this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion’s...
Stirling Moss won the feature race of the Easter Monday meeting at Goodwood 1956 in the works Aston Martin DB3S. His drive that day is captured in this oil painting by artist Bernard Reeves. Based in Herefordshire, England, Reeves specializes in oil and gouache paintings. His portfolio includes specialist oil...
Peter Brock Carroll Shelby 1 Stirling Moss drives a race car for the first time in over a year—since the...
The scene is just prior to the start of the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree, and local favorite Stirling...
Alberto Ascari Ayrton SennaPhoto: Maureen Magee 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
VR: Why don’t we take a step right back to the very beginning. How did you first get started with...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
I don’t think there has ever been a car that has captured the public’s imagination more than the Jaguar E-Type. When it first appeared, over 50 years ago, it combined everything that any motorist could possibly dream of in a car. Fabulous looks, magnificent performance and a price tag that...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
The Jaguar D-Type made its public debut at the 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans, where four cars were entered...
For perhaps the first time in motorsport history, a podium found its three steps occupied by father-son driving pairings. Last October’s Stirling Moss Trophy race at the Algarve Classic Festival in Portugal was won by the father and son team of Gabriel and Dion Kremer, their Lotus 17 Prototype chased...
Vintage Racecar’s European team will be out in full force at the 10th Race Retro, at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry,...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
Tony Robinson: The Biography of a Race Mechanic By Ian Wagstaff Everyone knows that the best racing stories are those...
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U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent example of this phenomenon took place at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion when BMW North America chief Ludwig Willisch drove a 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL—one of the five team cars...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
Even after almost 40 years of following Formula One, I’m amazed that there are still aspects of the sport that...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier crammed a lot into his 42 years. He was an accomplished Formula One and sports car racer, president of the Grand Prix Drivers Association and proprietor of his own art...
