I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half a century to the first such noble experiment. Pete Lyons It was 1959 when promoter Alec Ulmann staged the inaugural United States Grand Prix (USGP) on the old airport course...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
Short, sharp, summer showers, didn’t dampen the spirit or enthusiasm of the many thousands attending the Flywheel Festival weekend event,...
Short, sharp, summer showers didn’t dampen the spirit or enthusiasm of the many thousands attending the Flywheel Festival weekend event, which took place on July’s first weekend at former World War II bomber base Bicester Heritage. VR’s European team was on hand to meet and greet friends and welcome new...
May 2017 During the Sussex Trophy Race at Goodwood, on April 7, 1958, Archie Scott Brown keeps the works Lister-Jaguar...
June 2009 Spewing flame on a downshift, Carroll Shelby presses onward with the Aston Martin DBR1 at Goodwood’s six-hour Tourist...
The Glover Trophy; Goodwood, April 2, 1956. One of Klemantaski’s great shots: Stirling Moss in his private Maserati 250F really charging on the way to another win and a new lap record. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel:...
The 1959 Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1959. Stirling Moss turning into the old Gasworks Hairpin at the...
This was the start of the racing career of Sir Stirling Moss, who drove a BMW 328 owned by his...
At the Prescott Hillclimb on May 9, 1948, a truly momentous career began with the first hillclimb run (in a Cooper 500 MkII-J.A.P.) for the young Stirling Moss, who ran 4th fastest in class. He was then just 18 years old, but had already begun to gain notice in this,...
Bobby Unser François Cevert 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive the Löwenbrau Porsche 962...
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
As the ninth annual The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering had chosen to honor Ferrari’s limited edition, top-end America and Superamerica models, it was only fitting that the event’s Best of Show award would go to Jack Thomas’ 1955 Ferrari 375 America. Crowds roaming the grounds of the Quail Lodge Golf...
Sir Stirling Moss, one of the greatest all-around racing drivers of his generation, was honored at the recent FIA Gala...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius than that of Rudolfo and Carolina Maserati. Between 1880 and 1898, Carolina gave birth to no less than six sons, Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettore, and Ernesto. All but one...
Ten years have passed since the Earl of March set out to revive the glory days of motor racing at...
Inclement weather had battered and bruised England during the early summer months, leaving people wondering how Goodwood’s Festival of Speed...
The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. Fifteen races for historic cars and motorcycles were just a small part of what went on over the four-day period. A Drivers’ Cricket Match started the ball rolling on Thursday with a proper garden tea party at Goodwood House, and...
The Goodwood Motor Circuit will forever be associated with Sir Stirling Moss, and Goodwood’s one-time only event next month –...
The legendary Sir Stirling Moss, who passed away at Easter 2020, will be commemorated at Goodwood’s headline motorsport events in...
1958 Jaguar 3.4 Saloon An unused flying boat base from WWII provided the “test track” where our man Quinn tried out the big Cat’s capabilities.Photo: Steve Oom It has had an impressive competition career in anyone’s language. In simple number of wins it’s up there with some of the greatest...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a heart attack at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 31, 2009, four days short of his 72nd birthday. He had just spent the previous weekend participating in the Legends...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in 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 this August 18-19 during the California coastal city’s annual motoring week. The group is led by arguably the most important Aston Martin ever produced, the 1956 Aston Martin DBR1, chassis...
