Then Hundreds of small automobile manufacturers sprouted from the ruins of World War II. Energized by peace and engineering skills...
Berger drove the Benetton B197 to pole and victory at the 1997 German Grand Prix.Photo: Jim Hatfield The world held its breath on April 23, 1989, when Gerhard Berger’s Ferrari 640 went straight on at Imola’s Tamburello corner during the San Marino Grand Prix. The car slammed into a wall...
Mike Lawrence At the end of last year, I moved from Chichester to Oxford or, to put it in terms...
Then. Who wants to be Tony Curtis in the 1950s? That man had cars and women, fast and smokin’, in...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher At the beginning of February, Nissan made a pretty bold announcement when it revealed it would return to competition at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a front-engine LMP1 racer. And, as if the fact that this flies in the face of 53 years of mid-engine...
Umberto Maglioli stands beside his Porsche 550A and looks up from the pits during a break in open practice for...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
Then. Buying the proverbial project racecar in a box is always a tricky proposition. But is it easier or harder if the car was originally built from fiberglass bits without a conventional metal chassis? The Lotus Elite Type 14 made its world debut at the London Motor Car Show in...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher The famed Ford GT40 appears to be one of the most talked about and sought-after cars in...
The 1936 Bugatti Type 57G was also known as “The Tank” and it won Le Mans in 1939, just weeks...
Mike Lawrence One of the delights of Vintage Racecar is reading the small ads and being reminded of the sheer diversity of historic racing. You have the big names, of course, but there are the lesser-known makes like Bolwell, Elden and Huffaker—to pick three from a recent issue. None of...
Then I live in Texas. That means I’m supposed to be a barbeque snob. It also means that when invited...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Seventeen years ago, I started this magazine, in no small part, because I was finding it increasingly...
Much of Brawn’s success has come courtesy of Michael Schumacher, seen here in 1992 at Spa, winning his first Grand Prix with the Benetton B192. Photo: Mike Cotes Whoosh-bang. That sort of gives an impression of Ross Brawn’s 2009 Formula One season. The year of the spectacularly successful, flash in...
Mike Lawrence Recently, yet another attempt to revive the Allard name was announced. There have been three Allard revivals to...
Then Adults dream of regaining their youth. Children yearn to do grown-up things. This is the nature of our existence....
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read of the passing of an individual that you’ve likely never heard of. Yet, this gentleman is probably responsible for preserving more significant racing history than nearly anyone else in the past 50 years. His name was Bill Spoerle and from 1963...
Luigi Musso acclimates himself to the cockpit of his Maserati 300S prior to the start of the 1955 Grand Prix...
Mike Lawrence One of the anniversaries celebrated at the 2014 Goodwood Revival Meeting was 50 years since Jackie Stewart won...
Then I have a friend living in the Sunshine State with a spectacular collection of historic racing cars from the 1950s. For years I’ve been needling him about letting me write an article about one of his wonderful machines, but he has been steadfast in his resistance. Last week he...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Unless you’ve somehow managed to live completely “off the grid” for the past few months, by now...
Bandini in the Ferrari T1512/63 during the non-championship International Trophy race at Silverstone in the Spring of 1965, where he...
Mike Lawrence Up to ten of the “continuation” “Knobbly” Lister-Jaguars are being made, and these are available in either full racing or road-legal versions. So far, nobody has ordered a road-legal car, which is a shame because the original was. After Archie Scott-Brown’s amazing 1957 season, with the works Lister-Jaguar...
Then I’ve been aching to write a story about something totally mental. A Hidden Treasure beyond the realm of conventional...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher On the Roadcar side of the magazine this month, I have written about a venerable British icon—Jaguar—that...
Villeneuve won four races, including Indy, on his way to the 1995 CART Indycar crown. Photo: John Zimmermann Collection This self-confident Canadian is one of the élite. Only he, Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi have won motor racing’s grand slam, the CART Championship, the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula 1...
Mike Lawrence This year we celebrated the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Within weeks, what had been RAF Westhampnett, now the...
There is an entire world of exotic vintage Japanese racing machinery that is rarely, if ever, written about or discussed...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher As historic racers, to some extent our “Holy Grail” is to find a racecar with real, documented history. As such, we scour the globe (and the Internet) looking not just for a great car, but one with its original logbook. With this in mind, I recently found...
