It started with a phone call from the photographer/journalist Bernard Cahier. He said, “Carl Haas has a problem. Brian Redman...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer of the sports car races at Le Mans. This would be in July 1956. I was invited to go to the Le Mans 24 Hour race because I could speak...
One of the things that comes up is a little record I am very proud of that there are only...
Photo: Mike Jiggle At the end of 1981 when our (Jaguar) turnaround story was just unfolding, a most remarkable man...
The year was 1965 and I was going to drive a ’64 Porsche 904 owned by Porsche Car Pacific, the Northern California Porsche distributor, in a race at Candlestick Park, one that I looked forward to every year. My friend and crew chief Homer Worth was “the man.” He always...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view...
VRJ caught up with the Belgian former GP and sports car driver at a Spa track day where Ickx was...
I think I would point to three big moments in my past career, in addition to what I am doing now in team management in the FIA GT Championship. The first was when I won the European Championship in Formula 2. The next moment wasn’t my first win in Formula...
It has been three and a half years since Bernard Cahier passed away, but my memories of him still linger...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic on Jochen Rindt’s car—he was now the number one driver for Gold Leaf Team Lotus. Eddie Dennis was the number one mechanic and my immediate boss. As a mechanic, I...
The possibility of working with Ferrari surfaced in mid-1996. Michael told me at the end of 1995 that he was...
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport, however, had always fascinated me as a child and I wanted to be involved in some way, shape or form. There were a series of races in South Africa that...
We had run the Datsun roadsters for a season and a half before we ran the 510 and won the...
Inoue is shown here in the Hart-powered Footwork FA16 at Silverstone’s 1995 British Grand Prix where he spun into retirement...
Sir Jackie Stewart This Audi TT is a car capable of being driven on or pretty close to the limit. It’s a well-balanced car, turbo-charged with four-wheel drive, with higher performance than you would get in a “normal” TT. It’s been created for the driving school at Silverstone, so it...
I made my first visit to the Silverstone circuit in the 1960s. It was just a mission of curiosity at...
In modern Formula One terms, the young driver Max Verstappen is creating a storm in the motor racing press due...
I started work with Lotus Components in 1960. I really wanted to join the Lotus Formula One team, but unless you were in the right place at the right time and talking to the right person, it was difficult. It was very curious in the way it worked, you could...
Back in the early 1950s I was racing my own Cooper 500 fairly successfully. I managed to beat the works...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that it was time to build a single-seater chassis for myself. It was at the same time I had decided to leave my £18-a-week job at Rotax and set up my...
Takuma Sato On the very rare occasion of two current Grand Prix drivers having their first taste of historic motor...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville,...
Adrian CamposPhoto: Pete Austin Today, Spanish motor racing spectators have much to cheer for. Fernando Alonso wins many Grand Prix races and is number one Ferrari driver. Jamie Alguersuari is a great driver with the F1 Torro Rosso team. It was not so easy for me, so many years ago...
Hugh DibleyPhoto: Glynn Jones It all began as an end-of-season sojourn in the sun. The Bahamas Speed Week had been...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in...
I worked as the chief engineer at Lola (1969–1981) during one of their most productive and interesting periods. The number of fascinating incidents that happened during that period is endless. Not long after I joined Lola, at their factory in Slough, which must have been around 1970, we had a...
