At the 1975 edition of the fabled 24 Heures du Mans, Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell teamed to take thhis...
Then. I love Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) automobiles. These were cars built specifically for the Japanese market, and the best...
Pre-event publicity for the Silver Anniversary edition of the Silverstone Classic didn’t include anything about the British summer weather, but unfortunately inclement weather did play a major part in the weekend celebrations on two of the three days, with only Saturday being a sun day. Rain began falling in the...
Winton, Victoria, Australia May 29–31, 2015 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content....
During the French Grand Prix at Rouen-les Essarts on July 8, 1962, John Surtees aims the Bowmaker Lola Mk4-Climax into...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
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Former F1 driver and constructor Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85. Although he contested only a dozen...
Mike Lawrence Mike Jiggle’s recent article on the ex-Moss Cooper Mk IV-J.A.P. (VR, July 2015) prodded a few memories about the formula. I assisted the late David Hodges on his wonderful book, A-Z of Formula Racing Cars. Entries on 500-cc makers were down to me, and I thought that would...
Photo: Tom Schultz Affable and friendly are two words often used to describe Harry Heuer, but on the track he...
Photo: Steve Oom “Flat out like a lizard drinking!” Came the response from Andrew Woodall when I asked him how he...
Wrong Place for Flying Dear Editor, Years ago I took weekly flying lessons, accumulating enough seat time to solo. I called my late father-in-law Mike [Rothschild, a factory Triumph driver at Le Mans] and asked him about flying and going forward with the training. (He was then on his second twin Beechcraft,...
Manfred von Brauchitsch Biography He was called die Pechvogel, the unlucky bird. He was known more for the races that he lost...
Brands Hatch, Kent, UK May 23–25, 2015 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium...
To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of BMW, the German marque will be featured at next year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, set for August 18-21, 2016 at California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. A century ago, Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto first joined forces to combine their talents under the name Bavarian...
Lotus: The Marque By William Taylor Eleven years have passed since Mr. Taylor published the third in his series of...
Photo: Mike Jiggle At the end of 1981 when our (Jaguar) turnaround story was just unfolding, a most remarkable man...
The 42nd annual vintage racecar festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, otherwise known as the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, once again delighted crowds with a full slate of racing and other automotive activities as it celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Featured Marque, the Shelby GT350 Mustang, last weekend. Two...
Ultimately, I wanted to be a fashion designer—a very feminine thing to do—so from school that’s what I did. I...
Nelson Piquet Charles Stewart RollsPhoto: Rolls Royce 3 Dario Resta is killed and his riding mechanic, Bill Perkins, is injured...
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“It was the best of times…it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens PROLOGUE I’ve forgotten more about my...
It’s sometime easy to loose sight of the fact that the heroes of racing are, by and large, just people. Like us they eat food (sometimes too much!), they pull their Nomex on one leg at a time and, just like us, they sometimes have weird family issues. However, in...
Blackhawk Farms, South Beloit, IL June 19–21, 2015 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our...
