• The UK’s world famous Pre-war Aston Martin preparation and restoration specialists, Ecurie Bertelli of Olney, celebrated the completion of...
Photo: Ian Welsh When you look at any listing of Lotus competition cars built from the first Lotus VI of...
Walkinshaw on his way to victory in the inagrual Silverstone 6hrs in 1976.Photo: Peter Collins While I have had a long reputation of driving with BMW, I have no hesitation about the greatest racecar I ever drove. It has to be the 3.5-liter BMW CSL Group 5 car. It was...
Mecum Auctions made quite a statement at their inaugural Seattle auction, the weekend of June 14-15, with the record-setting sale...
Scheckter’s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished.Photo:...
This 1970 Targa Florio-winning Porsche 908/03 was piloted by Brian Redman and Jo Siffert, used by the John Wyer-led Porsche works team instead of the factory’s mighty 917 because its light weight and shorter wheelbase were better suited to the intricate demands of the 44-mile Sicilian circuit. For artist Cook,...
Photo: Pete Austin At the Goodwood Festival of Speed just a few months ago a Mercedes Benz W196, once driven...
When Chevrolet introduced the 1972 Corvette for the fifth year of C3 production, the basic car remained essentially unchanged from...
The International Motor Sports Association Camel Six-Hour GT; Mid-Ohio, July 9, 1972. Jim Greendyke and Denny Long finished 2nd in GTO to their class-winning Corvette teammates John Greenwood and Marshall Robbins. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
The artist Uli Ehret met Brian Redman by accident in a pub near Chichester, during the Goodwood Revival week for...
Maranello, Italy, November 1979. The introduction of the new Ferrari 312/T5 at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track. Standing behind the new...
If there are so many of us desperately searching for our old racing cars, why in the heck are we ever crazy enough to sell them in the first place? That is the very question that has intrigued Charlie Miller for the past 26 years. Miller is an engineer who...
South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age...
Pete Lyons There is no great genius without a trace of madness,” declared the Roman philosopher Seneca, and can we...
Mike Lawrence Last December, the Mail Online ran a piece on turkey rearing that highlighted cruelty. Two farmers were singled out for praise for the way they treat their birds, and one was Jody Scheckter. Jody’s considerable achievements in another life were not mentioned. I found this refreshing. We live...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
At the rain-soaked Österreichring on August 13, 1978, Ronnie Peterson tops the rise after the pits trailing a sheet of...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers...
Starting in 1954, Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo launched a series of small, affordable sports cars based around its all-alloy, 1300-cc, inline, 4-cylinder engine. This new model came to be known as the Giulietta (750 Series) and for the next 10 years would prove to be a fabulously successful offering for...
Nearly a decade after it had stunned the world with the original 300 SL, Mercedes-Benz faced the daunting task of...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some of us journos enjoyed the challenge of trying to figure out new speed technology on our own, without asking the team for explanations. And anyway, when the team was Penske-cum-Porsche...
The Watkins Glen 6 Hours, on July 21, 1973, served as the final round of that year’s World Sportscar Championship...
The author found the Amon AF101 quite enjoyable to drive at Donington, now that it has been extensively developed—note particularly...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive the 1979 March 79V Super Vee that Dennis Firestone drove to that year’s USAC “Mini-Indy” championship. I have a certain affinity for Super Vees, both in having raced a Ralt...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines rumbled around Mosport toward the first starting flag of the sixth season of the fabulous but faltering Can-Am series. Jackie Stewart, flop-haired superstar of F1, was on pole in his...
