Paul McMorran The loss of John Crosslé at the end of August 2014 completes the passing of a remarkable generation...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
I guess the best period in motor racing for me was when I managed to have my first drives in Formula 1. That came about because I knew Paul Emery. I had put an entry in myself for the Brussels Grand Prix in April 1962 for a Lotus. The Emeryson...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
Parnelli Jones By 1973, we had a great Indy car team and had won 53 Indy car races. As a...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in a test organized by George Bignotti, during the latter months of 1965. George was the very distinguished chief mechanic who, I believe, holds the record of seven Indy 500 winners....
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.”...
My racing Astons started in 1953, and although the first year brought some results, there wasn’t a win until 1955,...
My driving roots were from my Dad and my brother who both raced. I was brought up with and around cars. The day I turned 17, the first thing I did was to go and buy my driving license—it’s what you did back then. You put your money on the...
Inoue is shown here in the Hart-powered Footwork FA16 at Silverstone’s 1995 British Grand Prix where he spun into retirement...
You know, I had the experience of working with some great teams and on some “interesting” projects. For example, I...
John WatsonPhoto: Mike Jiggle To many, although it may have seemed so, my first Grand Prix win at the Österreichring, was not “against all odds.” The Penske PC4 had been developed from previous chassis and by the time we came to the Austrian GP, in 1976, we were in good...
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula 3—a championship I stayed in for about four or five years. Formula Three was a good experience for me and my team, Euroracing. In 1977 we won the European F3...
My recollection of getting to know Archie was that my father went to Cambridge University and was a member of...
Peter Westbury The first circuit I ever went to was Brands Hatch, in the ’50s, when I was still at...
We had run the Datsun roadsters for a season and a half before we ran the 510 and won the championship with that. And so the team kept building—as far as the personnel, it was really a good team. I wasn’t really enthused about the 510 at first because I...
I remember the 1968 Oulton Park Gold Cup Race very well because it was my first Formula 1 drive, and...
Harry Heuer, whose father was the CEO of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, decided in the late ’50s to go...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in Connecticut, and we built a McLaren M6A for John Cannon. After that I was hooked on the Can-Am so I moved back to California, when I became Peter Revson’s mechanic...
My fourth win at Indy was the best for a lot of reasons. The first will always have its place...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have had the steering shear twice…where I have been driving along and suddenly my arms crossed…that’s when you know something is wrong! The things you remember are the things that are...
My first visit to Donington Park motor racing circuit was as an 11 year old lad, with my father. It...
Bev BondPhoto: Pete Austin I was born with a competitive spirit, my father represented Great Britain at Speedway, my mother...
Privateer Bruce Halford took part in the epic 1957 German Grand Prix, finishing 11th in his Maserati 250F. It was one of my duties to convey Bruce’s Maserati around the Continent in a converted Royal Blue AEC coach. This particular saga began at the Maserati factory in Modena, where I...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I was interested in cars from an early age. Indeed, my father had a couple of garage dealerships, one with Ford and the other with BMC, or British Leyland as it...