Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning...
Whether you work on your own cars or not, at some juncture in your life you inevitably have to pick...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy of Motor Sport. Many years later, I was chatting with James Weaver at Silverstone, who said, “Bloody Denis Jenkinson, it’s thanks to him I’m in my current mess.” In 1957,...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
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 V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
September 2007 Graham Hill Scrapbook, 1929–1966 By Philip Porter Over the past couple of years, we’ve brought you reviews of Porter’s previous “Scrapbooks” devoted to the life of Sir Stirling Moss. Each of these has been a ravely reviewed inside look into various periods in Moss’s life. As good as...
As evidenced in VR’s recent two-part feature, the diminutive under-1-liter Italian sports car affectionately known as “Etceterini” encompasses a broad,...
After 16 years and more than eight million competitor kilometers, the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally has become an eagerly anticipated...
Just over 50 years ago, in a support race for the 1957 New Zealand Grand Prix, British driver Ken Wharton was killed when his Ferrari 750 Monza crashed at the Ardmore airfield circuit. Although the car was very badly damaged, Ken Harris took it over and had a new body...
My forty-third stained-glass window turned out to be a very special piece of art. It was commissioned by Jan and...
Vincenzo Lancia Keith Duckworth 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). 3 Graham Hill drives a Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 330LM to victory in the 133-mile Guards Trophy Race at Brand Hatch, England (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
Morgan Park Queensland, Australia May 12–13, 2007 Looking menacing—the Auscam Mazda 600 of Barry Singleton.Photo: Damien Petrie Become a Member...
August 2007 Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared in bookstores and was something of a bestseller in the U.S. and England. “It covers a period when the racing of fast motor cars bore little resemblance to what is...
One of the curious offshoots of America’s involvement in WWII was the fact that many American GI’s developed a taste...
The 2007 Fuji Jamboree historic race meeting held on April 15 and organized by the Japan Classic Car Association attracted...
Australia’s home of motor sport, Mount Panorama (Bathurst), will once again come alive with the roar of engines at Easter—this time for a new event—with confirmation that the Festival of Sporting Cars (FoSC) will be held at the Mount over the 2008 Easter long weekend. The organizers of the highly...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula...
BMW’s rich history in motorsports competition began prior to World War II. The 328 (1936–’48) driven by Ernst Henne won in its 1936 Nürburgring debut, setting the standard for the 2-liter sports car class. BMW 328 Brescia open roadsters took 3rd, 5th and 6th place during the1940 Il Gran Premio...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
July 2007 Porsche 917—Zuffenhausen’s Le Mans and Can-Am Champion Introduction by Karl Ludvigsen By now well-known to the readers of...
This interesting Web site is devoted to preserving historic photographs of the Cumberland Airport Sports Car races. Held from 1953–1970, the Cumberland airport, in western Maryland, hosted a variety of local and SCCA road races, on a classic “airport-style” temporary road course. On occasion, big names like Carroll Shelby, Roger...
