I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
Despite the weather, the IROC Camaro proved capable on both the oval track at Rockingham and Silverstone’s club circuit. Photo: Pete Austin...
This painting shows the Talbot Lago driven by Louis Rosier being tended by a mechanic at the very first World Championship Formula One race at Silverstone in 1950. This naturally aspirated 4.2-liter car finished 4th behind three supercharged 1.5-liter Alfa Romeos. The artist says he likes this image for its grass field...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Only three of the world’s oldest motor races still take place. The most senior of them is the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, which was first run in 1911 and is still going strong. Next comes the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first of which was in 1923. And the...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
Niki Lauda came back into Grand Prix racing, because he could! It has been suggested that he needed the money,...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and a German driver, Nico Rosberg. Germany has had many successes and failures during the history of motor racing and the life of the modern Formula One World Championship. While pre-war...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin...
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 Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered...
Every Brit in motor racing of a certain age blames Bill Boddy and Denis Jenkinson for the fact that we were diverted from leading useful lives. As youngsters, we read Motor Sport. Mike Lawrence Nothing about it made any sense according to any business model. It would drive any teacher...
The FIA’s vaunted Formula One World Championship celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, with gala reunions of all its living...
Phil Hill Biography Overshadowed by his fellow Americans Mario Andretti and AJ Foyt it was Phil Hill who became America’s first World Champion after the death of the popular German driver Wolfgang von Trips. Born in Florida his family would soon move to Santa Monica, California. Hill soon immersed himself...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12 engine produced 450 horses and, at 860 kilograms, the prototype was considerably lighter than the Ford Mk 2s and Mk 4s. The season opener at Daytona saw the Ferrari team...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning...
1970 Nomad-BRM Mk3 After the war years in the UK, a certain Churchillian spirit prevailed, which left many with an...
Jack Brabham met Ron Tauranac when Ron showed up as a customer for Jack’s machine shop in Australia in 1950....
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming the new Jim Clark. His rise to fame, however, came to a sudden—even if temporary—standstill after a horrendous 10-car, 150 mph Formula 3000 accident while driving Jordan Racing’s Reynard-Ford Cosworth...