February 2011 During the J.C.C. International Trophy race at Brooklands, U.K., on May 6, 1939, Kenneth Evans is shown at...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
Wakefield Park, Goulburn, NSW, Australia September 18–19, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Roger Penske Fred Offenhauser 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
The motor racing world was saddened to learn of the passing of Tom Walkinshaw in December of last year. Tom Walkinshaw was the son of a successful market gardener at Mauldslie Farm, near Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland. His initial days as a racing driver were a true test of grit and...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
Two Ross Brawn-designed cars were to play a big part in my racing career, both were formidable contenders and race...
Republic of San Marino October 7–9, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember...
With Sir Frank Williams as our interview subject this month, we thought it might be a good idea to send...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA October 1–3, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner...
Leading historic race organizer, Motor Racing Legends, has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group...
Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA October 14–17, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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...
A new and exciting chapter was written in the competition history of Triumph with the Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge...
Tazio Nuvolari has found a new home, or at least his museum has. The museum devoted to him and his...
Race Retro 2011 will celebrate one of Britain’s best-loved, if not the best-loved, sports cars next year when it returns to Stoneleigh Park, Coventry in the earlier slot of February 25–27. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-Type’s launch at the show will be the drivers and backroom boys...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Phoenix Int’l Raceway, Phoenix, AZ October 23–24, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
For the seventh and final time, the Centennial of the historic Vanderbilt Cup races was celebrated on New York’s Long Island last October. Just as 1910 marked the final running of W.K. Vanderbilt’s original seven races on Long Island, so was 2010 the last Centennial observance, commemorated along Museum Row...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
This painting is called “260.841” because that was the (just try to imagine this) average speed (in kph) of Pedro Rodriguez’s´fastest lap during the 1971 1000 Kilometers of Spa, which produced a hard-fought battle all the way between the two Gulf Porsche 917s of Rodriguez/Jackie Oliver, the eventual winners, and...
I had seen this well-used Lotus 18 sitting in a grumpy little foreign car repair shop hard along Ventura Blvd....
I’d like to talk with you for a moment about Regularity. Relax. This conversation has nothing to do with Metamucel,...
Several months ago I received an irate email from a VR reader with one simple, albeit piercing, question; “Mark, why in the hell don’t you ever write about British drag racing cars?” British drag racing? What did I know about that? And how would I ever find a “hidden” one...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL October 21–24, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The Williams Formula One Conference Centre, Grove, UK was the venue for the 5th bi-annual reunion of the Grand Prix...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants/UK October 22, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner products....