The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his...
Most readers should be familiar with the work of Bernard Cahier and his son Paul-Henri as chroniclers of the Formula One experience, essentially from the beginning to now. Upon Bernard’s 2008 passing, the family torch was passed into the keeping of Paul-Henri, who has devoted great energy to maximizing the...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie...
Every Brit in motor racing of a certain age blames Bill Boddy and Denis Jenkinson for the fact that we...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
Bob Schroeder, the only Arkansas-born driver to ever participate in a World Championship Formula One event—the 1962 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen—passed away in a Dallas hospital on December 3, 2011, at the age of 85. Born Robert Edward Schroeder in El Dorado, Arkansas, on May 11, 1926, Bob...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the first time I ever really thought about racing tires. It was the German Grand Prix of 1961. The 1.5-liter formula had just come in, and the tiny, 4-cylinder Coventry Climax...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the sad passing of Dan Gurney so it has happened once more. Dan was part of that wave of American drivers from the ’50s sports car racing scene who all arrived...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan...
Denny Hulme was one of the most reserved men in motor racing. He seldom showed his emotions, which he camouflaged with a likable but sometimes gruff personality. Hulme never regarded himself a star, even if that were the case, and often went unrecognized in the most public of places, among...
This year’s Formula One World Championship commenced without the reigning champion in the field, something that has not happened since...
Derek Gardner will be remembered, by many, as the designer of one of the most radically designed cars ever to...
Derek is the epitome of the driver who should have won the Formula One World Championship, but was just about always with the wrong team at the wrong time. He drove for some of the great names in the sport, like Renault and Lotus, but not when they were on...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929,...
You could have been forgiven if you thought the racing world were coming to an end on April 12th. That was the day it was announced that two-time Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso would be forgoing this year’s Monaco Grand Prix, to make an attempt at the Indy 500,...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...