Bobby Rahal is one of the most well-rounded individuals to take part in motorsport. His reputation for using his brain...
Everybody knows who Bobby Unser is. During his extensive racing career, the third of Mom and Pop Unser’s four race-driving...
A well-known name in Australian motor sport circles, Brian Foley commenced racing during the 1950s behind the wheel of an Austin A30. He soon moved on to other BMC cars, including an A40 Farina, Lancer, Austin-Healey Sprite and the mighty Mini Cooper S, though the late 1960s and early ’70s...
Brian RedmanPhoto: Hal Crocker I usually start off an interview by asking, “Who are you?” And how did you become...
Brian Redman is well-known as one of the most successful and versatile sports car drivers of the late ’60s and...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach, Brian Redman remains one of our sport’s treasures. A lifelong racer, he claimed 18 major international endurance race victories in a succession of Fords, Porsches, Ferraris and BMWs, and won...
Brian Redman When last we left Brian Redman back in the August issue, he’d just returned from his first attempt...
Bruce Burness is one of those multi-talented behind-the-scenes players who lend so much richness to the world of motorsports, possessing...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Bruno Giacomelli was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1952. He was always enthusiastic about racing and especially about single-seaters, working his way quickly into Formula Two, where he won the European F2 Championship in 1978 driving a works March-BMW. He managed to break into F1 in a 3rd McLaren in...
In our January 2007 issue, Pete Lyons shared some remarks about the grand old Canadian-American Challenge Cup series made by...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby accomplished the feat 50 years ago this month, driving an Aston Martin DBR1 in company with Roy Salvadori. Shelby had begun racing back in his native Texas shortly after returning...
Texas professional and historic racer Charles Nearburg has a long and diversified motorsport resume. At the profession level, he’s competed...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global governing body, the FIA, is no different. One of the men who help make a difference there is Englishman Charlie Whiting. Whiting started out in Club racing and worked his...
Chris CordPhoto: Courtesy Chris Cord He may have been born into a family whose name was etched upon the American...
Photo: John Zimmermann Before 1975, sanctioned automobile races through city streets in North America were rare, the only real example...
For three short years, in the early 1960s, Christabel Carlisle, now Lady Watson, was the name on the lips of everyone who attended race meetings in the UK. At that time, it was controversial for women to race cars. However, from out of nowhere she was an instant success. During...
41 year-old German Christian Danner is one of a very small number of active drivers with connections to the heady…and...
Christopher TatePhoto: Kary Jiggle Christopher Tate is the Managing Director of Donington Race Circuit in the UK. In his career,...
Like many other drivers in the West, Chuck Daigh arose out of the California hot rod culture and became one of the premier drivers of his generation driving the virtually invincible Scarab sports racing cars and moving on to the unsuccessful Scarab Formula One car. An especially efficient and brilliant...
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
With the prospect of landing a man on the moon, the American public was captivated by all things “jet-powered” in...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could get his hands on, from used DKW Monzas at Harewood Acres to Abarth Simcas at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant and even the ferocious Comstock EXP at Mosport. He also raced...
Dan Gerber started racing in midwest SCCA events in an Austin-Healey in 1961, while in 1962 he also started racing...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
In this final installment of Casey Annis’ interview with Dan Gurney, Dan discusses his “second” career as a constructor and team owner. Click here to read the first installment where Dan Gurney discusses his days as a driver. VRJ: What has been more satisfying for you – your career as...