“It was the best of times…it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens PROLOGUE I’ve forgotten more about my...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 10-12, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Winton, Victoria, Australia May 29–31, 2015 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....
Photo: Mike Jiggle At the end of 1981 when our (Jaguar) turnaround story was just unfolding, a most remarkable man...
Pre-event publicity for the Silver Anniversary edition of the Silverstone Classic didn’t include anything about the British summer weather, but...
Lotus: The Marque By William Taylor Eleven years have passed since Mr. Taylor published the third in his series of definitive Lotus chronologies, and since then a lot has happened in Lotus Land, so time seemed right for an update. Rather than simply appending his previous volume, however, Taylor and...
Manfred von Brauchitsch Biography He was called die Pechvogel, the unlucky bird. He was known more for the races that he lost...
Former F1 driver and constructor Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85. Although he contested only a dozen...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN June 12–14, 2015 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...
Ultimately, I wanted to be a fashion designer—a very feminine thing to do—so from school that’s what I did. I...
Brands Hatch, Kent, UK May 23–25, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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...
The 42nd annual vintage racecar festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, otherwise known as the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, once...
During the French Grand Prix at Rouen-les Essarts on July 8, 1962, John Surtees aims the Bowmaker Lola Mk4-Climax into...
Blackhawk Farms, South Beloit, IL June 19–21, 2015 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...
Nelson Piquet Charles Stewart RollsPhoto: Rolls Royce 3 Dario Resta is killed and his riding mechanic, Bill Perkins, is injured...
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 was. It was a Monday afternoon and in a couple of days Andrew was heading off to Winton Motor Raceway, in the middle of the Australian state of Victoria for...
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...
At the 1975 edition of the fabled 24 Heures du Mans, Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell teamed to take thhis...
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,...
Sears Point, Sonoma, CA May 28–31, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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...
Then. I love Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) automobiles. These were cars built specifically for the Japanese market, and the best...