With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that enpowered him to become the 1980 Formula One World Champion. Your father enjoyed a reasonable motor racing career. Was it, therefore, inevitable that you became involved in the sport? Become...
All the living Formula One World Champions are expected to participate in F1’s 60th Anniversary celebrations over the weekend of...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
Frankly, I was surprised at how easily it drove after some previous experiences I had with other open-wheelers. Owner Ed Holly and I are about the same size and shape, and once my bum was in the seat of his Brabham BT6 I felt perfectly at home. No names of...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon,...
At its recent AGM, the British Racing Drivers Club unanimously elected Derek Warwick as its new president, replacing former F1 World Champion Damon Hill, OBE, who has held the post since 2006. Warwick won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Peugeot in 1992, and is a former F1 driver with...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its...
Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, the sleepy market town streets of Bourne came alive to the sound...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
Danny Margulies was but a boy when he visited his home Grand Prix of Bucharest in 1937 and first opened...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed...
As you’ll read in this month’s news—and likely learned from our web site back on March 10—multi-time motorcycle and Formula One World Champion John Surtees has passed away at the age of 83. While we make mention of his passing in this issue, next month we will feature a unique...
Pete Lyons Our reigning World Champion has forced us to think, once again, about sportsmanship in motorsport. Whether or not...
The third annual Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 4-5, 2013, will celebrate the career of three-time Formula One World...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula 1 World Championship (twice) and the CART title with a record in both—that reads like any self-respecting Walter Mitty’s wish list. He won 14 Grands Prix—not to mention non-title “oddments”...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
The Belgian Grand Prix; Zolder, May 13, 1979. Really trying! The wonderful Gilles Villeneuve, father of recent World Champion Jacques...
Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race at Riverside. California (1969). 2 The Corvette GTP (a Chevy-powered Lola T711) makes its race debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1985). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The...
This portrait of the legendary John Surtees, by mixed media artist Jonathan (Joff) Carter, commemorates the unique, astounding, achievements of...
Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you can’t laugh at yourself, what good are you? To paraphrase another old saw, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. So, it...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed, held July 11–13, has grown every year since its inception in 1993 and now stands alone as the premier event offering something for everyone interested in four- or two-wheeled motor sport. What began as a historic motor sport garden party held in the grounds of...
Goodwood was at its best yet again for the 13th Revival celebration. Four days of superb weather made it one...
Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an “Ancien Pilotes” demonstration race in the late 1960s. Photo: J Pearson Archive Aspiration...
The 1920s and 1930s were not only a pivotal time in world history, they proved to be the crucible from which the Italian Alfa Romeo brand would forge its future. Engineer Giuseppe Merosi launched A.L.F.A with the 4-cylinder 24 HP, in 1910. Founded by gifted engineer Giuseppe Merosi, on January...
