Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
Woody WoodardPhoto: Yours Truly Photography Woody Woodard was employed as a mechanic by Roger Penske, and in so doing worked closely with Mark Donohue on the Trans-Am effort, the Porsche Turbo Can-Am car and the most famous non-winning Ferrari ever, in the team’s Quixotic effort to best Porsche at the...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally...
Photo: Mike Jiggle It is almost safe to say that a Maserati saved the Grand Prix career of a promising...
Jack BrabhamPhoto: Roger Dixon As a tribute to triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, the only man ever to win the World Championship in a car carrying his name, we offer this previously unpublished interview that the Australian icon gave to VR’s European Editor Mike Jiggle in which he discusses...
Tony Parella They say there is no greater zealot, than a recent convert. Though he came to the sport fairly...
He is, after all, Mario Andretti, one of the most accomplished racing drivers of all time, the only man to...
Photo: John Zimmermann Before 1975, sanctioned automobile races through city streets in North America were rare, the only real example being in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, first run in 1967. After the Long Beach Grand Prix showed how it could be done, street racing swept the continent, with some circuits good and...
A well-known name in Australian motor sport circles, Brian Foley commenced racing during the 1950s behind the wheel of an...
Don Nichols Don Nichols is one of only three Americans ever to field a winning car in a World Championship...
Phil Garratt and Kieron BrownPhoto: Mike Jiggle Phil Garratt and Kieron Brown recently won their category in the gruelling 7,610-mile, 2013 Peking to Paris Rally. VR’s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, wanted to know just how this was achieved, from the spark of the idea to participate, to the selection of...
Over his years in racing, Eppie Wietzes drove everything on four wheels, from a Morris Minor with an Austin A40...
Brian Redman When last we left Brian Redman back in the August issue, he’d just returned from his first attempt to escape motor sport, but had suffered serious burns from a crash on the Targa Florio. Once healed, circumstances turned his attentions toward American racing and he set about the...
Tony DeLorenzoPhoto: Courtesy of Tony DeLorenzo Tony DeLorenzo’s father, Anthony G., was a newspaperman, a reporter for UPI who then...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Chris CordPhoto: Courtesy Chris Cord He may have been born into a family whose name was etched upon the American automotive landscape by his grandfather, E.L. Cord, but it was his stepfather, Bill Doheny, who first exposed Chris Cord to the sport of auto racing at legendary venues such as...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and Ford GT40s (Marks I, II and IV) all over the world, Phil Remington stood on the leading edge of racing technology for some seven decades until his peaceful...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early years with Lola and McLaren, how he developed his design philosophy and then looked at his experiences in Indycar racing and, back in Formula One, with McLaren and Ferrari. In...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar Championship-winning team of 1959, it seemed reasonable to speak with another racer who worked in that fabled John Wyer-run team, Rex Woodgate. Woodgate is a notoriously detail-oriented mechanic who became...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
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...
