After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
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Maserati 250 F Car: Maserati 250 F / Engine: 6-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Maserati / Bore X Stroke: 84 mm X 75...
I mean looking at it from a generational aspect and selfishly too because I own it, it has to be Tyrrell 003 designed by Derek Gardner, which won eight grand prix. It doesn’t matter how often I look at it there is always something that catches my eye afresh and...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
When considering my greatest racecar, the question seems far too big for me to give a simple answer. I drove...
The Anglo-European Trophy, Brands Hatch, September 14, 1963. Tim Mayer was a very talented young American driver and the brother of Teddy Mayer, who was Bruce McLaren’s partner. Here he is at Druids on his way to a 6th place finish in Ken Tyrrell’s Cooper. Mayer crashed fatally in Australia...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the way. I thought I could become a decent single-seater driver in the various club events that existed at the time. I was studying Autosport one day in late 1968 and...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to be when he grew up, and who managed to make his mark in the upper echelons of motor sports with a single organization over a dozen years. That vocation was...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly but don’t make it to the grid, and then they disappear. Thanks to historic racing and car collecting fever, however, a number have managed to rise from the ashes. VR...
Ronnie Peterson drove the Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler in the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, but was an early retirement...
Now firmly re-established as one of the biggest and best historic racing festivals, the Silverstone Classic provided plenty of interest...
Inclement weather had battered and bruised England during the early summer months, leaving people wondering how Goodwood’s Festival of Speed would be affected. Although heavy dark clouds brought rain and gusting wind on Friday morning, almost on cue for the Red Arrows aerial display the grey sky cleared—as if commanded...
Tyrrell-Ford P34 Car: Tyrrell-Ford P34/ Engine: V-8 Ford-Cosworth DFV / Maker: Tyrrell / Bore X Stroke: 85.7 mm X 64.8...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in...
The start of the Monaco Grand Prix remains one of motor racing’s true spectacles, and in this depiction of the opening moments of the 1971 contest through the streets of the Principality, we see the front row of Jackie Stewart’s Tyrrell (#11) and Jacky Ickx’s Ferrari (#4) lighting up their...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
Californian John Delane has become the first American to win the overall Historic Formula One championship, claiming the 2011 crown with his Class A Tyrrell 002-Ford after previously earning consecutive Class A championships between 2002 and 2007 as well as in 2010. Delane sealed his latest title by taking the...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Tyrrell-Ford 002 Car: Tyrrell-Ford 002 / Engine: Ford Cosworth DFV 90º V8 / Maker: Tyrrell / Bore X Stroke: 85.7...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed...
Twenty-five years ago, a company called Amstrad launched an inexpensive word processor. The package was crude, each three-inch disk held only 157K RAM, though on both sides. The operating program had to be loaded every time it was switched on, and you still had to send your copy by post,...
