Now here is a man of his word—and it cost him dearly. In 1961, Innes agreed to drive for Formula...
I’ve had a dream, one of the rare ones I remember clearly and can’t stop thinking about. That must mean...
Jack was born on April 2, 1926, and I think it’s appropriate that we all wish him a happy birthday. (I realize you are reading the May edition of Vintage Racecar, but subscribers usually get it in April.) On this occasion, I thought you might be interested in some of...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky Ickx is born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 4 Graeme Lawrence drives a Ferrari Dino 246 to victory in Tasman Cup race at Levin, New Zealand (1970). Become a Member &...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
Jimmy Clark Biography Jimmy Clark was born in Kilmany, in the county of Fife to a Scottish farming family, roots that would stay with him for the rest of his life. He was the only son in a family of four daughters. His early racing exploits were initially met by...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses around his home city of Coventry. Despite having good qualifications and being at the epicenter of the UK car industry, he was rejected first by Jaguar and then initially by...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
Included on the Queen’s New Year Honors List this time around is the name of John Surtees, who has been...
Our European Editor, Ed McDonough, has had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula 1 car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
One of the things to particularly love about ladies, is their ability to “multi-task,” something most men are not very good at, or at all. Women can have babies, manage households, manage husbands, drive racing cars, fly aeroplanes and run countries. Of course, men can do most of those—pregnancy excepted—but...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to...
In the pantheon of British racing greats, few have attained the near mythical status of Britain’s first Formula One World Champion Mike Hawthorn. With the help of his father, Hawthorn began racing first with bikes and then cars in the late ’40s. Showing great talent in Rileys and an Ulster...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
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 most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor...
February 2017 • Publication of the final calendar for the FIA’s 2017 Formula One World Championship means that the date for next summer’s Silverstone Classic will shift a week in order to accommodate the changes. The 2017 Silverstone Classic, featuring a 50th anniversary celebration of Formula Ford, will now take...