The 1920s and 1930s were not only a pivotal time in world history, they proved to be the crucible from...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon, has passed away at the age of 91. After meeting future husband Graham, at a rowing club function in 1950, Bette would four years later be swept up into the...
June 2008 Lancia 037 The Development and Rally History of a World Champion By Peter Collins Long-time VR author and...
Goodwood was at its best yet again for the 13th Revival celebration. Four days of superb weather made it one...
Pete Lyons Our reigning World Champion has forced us to think, once again, about sportsmanship in motorsport. Whether or not you monitor modern F1, you must know of the controversy that Sebastian Vettel brewed up in this year’s second GP at Malaysia. Late in the race he found himself coming...
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...
The passing of any legend will always generate a fresh wave of interest in his or her biographical history, and Phil Hill is no different. As you can see from this issue of VR, many are the tributes offered for America’s first World Champion racer. Some readers, however, may wish...
The third annual Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 4-5, 2013, will celebrate the career of three-time Formula One World...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its...
The most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor runs throughout the history of the Indianapolis 500 David Bruce-Brown finished 3rd in the inaugural 500 with this Fiat. Photo: IMS Photo A century ago, the Indianapolis 500 was conceived as...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that...
“Phil Hill, World Champion Formula One 1961” Water Color Painting by Uli Ehret Weinheim, Germany Limited edition prints available e.g. 20”x40” print on canvas, incl. stretching and shipping to USA or UK price: £259 / €329 / $490 info: Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you...
Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race...
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...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
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...
Damon Hill OBE, president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and the 1996 Formula One World Champion, joined Richard ...
One of the things to particularly love about ladies, is their ability to “multi-task,” something most men are not very...
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...
Now here is a man of his word—and it cost him dearly. In 1961, Innes agreed to drive for Formula...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
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