When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His early childhood was unremarkable puctuated by frequent moving. He like other young boys was attracted to the exploits of Brutish sports figures including Jimmy Clark. After considerable success in kart racing,...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a sense the latter part of the Lotus 78. Both of those cars were essentially ground-effect cars with sliding skirts. The initial concept of the Brabham BT46 was to have surface-cooling...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
There was a flurry of events in Italy to mark the 30th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve’s death in a crash...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in the UK and Europe the more I wanted to get onto the “inside.” At first, I’d go motor racing with my brother, later I met Stuart, my husband. We’d travel...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone...
I started work with Lotus Components in 1960. I really wanted to join the Lotus Formula One team, but unless...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at the Belgian Grand Prix that year, the Lotus 79 became the car to beat. Between them, Andretti and Peterson would notch an impressive six wins with their Lotus 79s—with our...
Masters Historic Racing has announced an eight-race European schedule for next year, beginning with the Masters Festival at Zolder, Belgium,...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin Chapman’s JPS Lotus 78 and 79 Formula One cars. Andretti made his Grand Prix debut with Lotus in 1968, qualifying on pole for the United States GP at Watkins Glen....
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has released its schedule of events for the third year of its Golden Jubilee...
Wow Gilles!—Villeneuve, The Undying Legend By Ercole Columbo Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles...