For a “round peg,” John Cooper Fitch fits remarkably “squarely” in the pigeonhole marked “True American Hero.” In his 85...
Duncan was initially entranced by record keeping and statistics in racing events. This interest morphed into a desire to race...
The BRM Years Tony Southgate Photo: Pete Austin Last November we began an ongoing series of interviews with Tony Southgate, the English designer whose lengthy résumé includes stints with some of the most prominent teams in the sport across a variety of disciplines. In this second installment, Mike Jiggle talks with...
Jack BrabhamPhoto: Roger Dixon As a tribute to triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, the only man ever to win...
Peter Bryant’s colorful career spans nearly three decades of motorsport and includes time spent working in Formula One, sports car and Indy cars. However Bryant is perhaps best remembered for his time in the Can-Am, where he designed the famous Titanium Ti22 that proved tantalizingly fast in the early ’70s....
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time of the Australian Special, the racing of early model Holdens and the Tasman Series. Many names came and went, but quite a few remained and are still well known today...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
John Coombs was literally born into the motoring business, as his multi-talented craftsman father was already working with automobiles when...
Few Americans have had as significant an impact on the history and direction of global motorsport as Texan Jim Hall. As both a driver and a car constructor, Hall created and guided the highly influential Chaparral line of sports cars, which almost singlehandedly ushered aerodynamics into the lexicon of professional...
John Zeitler – driver, engine builder, racecar designer and manufacturer – had a racing career spanning over 20 years, most...
Teddy Pilette Belgian racing driver Teddy Pilette is a third-generation racer of the Pilette motor racing family. His grandfather, Theodore, famously took part in the 1913 Indy 500 where, driving a small-engined Mercedes, he finished 5th. His father, André, took to the track too, and participated in 14 Grands Prix between 1951...
Last month, European Editor Ed McDonough spoke with Vic Elford about his first Formula One encounters, and his Ford and...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to be when he grew up, and who managed to make his mark in the upper echelons of motor sports with a single organization over a dozen years. That vocation was...
Dan Gerber started racing in midwest SCCA events in an Austin-Healey in 1961, while in 1962 he also started racing...
Prior to the early ’70s, safety issues were given little attention in Formula One and, by association motorsport in general....
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine built by their company would take the motor racing world by storm. However, history shows the enormous impact the duo had, especially at the highest echelon of the sport—Formula One....
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
Tony Southgate began his lengthy career in motorsports by joining Lola Cars in the early days of that venerable marque’s...
Jean-Pierre BeltoisePhoto: Thierry Lesparre Over a period of years, VR’s Mike Jiggle and Ed McDonough have had the opportunity to interview French racing driver Jean-Pierre Beltosie who died recently at his summer home in Senegal, at age 77, following a stroke. They have pulled their interviews together in this tribute to...
Woody WoodardPhoto: Yours Truly Photography Woody Woodard was employed as a mechanic by Roger Penske, and in so doing worked...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
From humble beginnings behind the wheel of a MG TC, Frank Matich, over a 21-year period, rose to become a household name in Australia as a respected vehicle designer and driver. In sports cars and open-wheelers bearing his own name, he not only dominated the Australian scene winning the Australian...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
Bob Tullius “I have often categorized Mosport as the most exciting and challenging track of all,”says Bob Tullius. “In fact...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half a century, however, he built that desire into a multiple World Championship-winning entity that employs several hundred people, and to honor those accomplishments, in 1999 he was knighted by Queen...
