Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
For the motorsports fan, there are a lot of great series to watch out there. You have the top tier competitions such as Formula One, the World Rally Championship, International GT Championship, and the World Endurance Championship. However, one of the fastest-growing championships, in terms of status and interest, is...
The 2012 European Grand Prix at the forgotten, abandoned Valencia Street Circuit. Image via Planet F1 Formula One, by its...
Once upon a time, it used to be that the most talented drivers made it into Formula One. Quaint notion,...
For those of us that have been watching Formula One races since the early 1990s, the safety advances that have been implemented in the last 30 years are extraordinary. Consider that the first carbon fiber chassis cars were just starting to be developed around the late 1980s, and the material...
At the beginning of the Formula One World Championship in 1950, there was no real list tightly controlling the specifications...
Deep in the Eifel mountains, a sparsely populated wild region in north-western Germany, often cited as being one of Germany’s...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...
F1 is an incredibly exciting sport that attracts hundreds of millions of viewers every year. There is a lot that...
The Ford Motor Company recently announced its entrance into a technical partnership with defending Formula One World Champions Red Bull...
George Follmer Biography Follmer was born in Phoenix on January 27, 1934, but it was not long before his father, an engineer for a company that made flour mills, moved the family to suburban Los Angeles. “I did okay in high school, when I focused on books instead of girls,”...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be...
Motor Racing History – The Big 12 Cylinders & The Arrival of Sponsorships, Advanced Safety and Aerodynamics Checkbook Racing The...
Motor Racing History – New British Teams & The Rear-Engined Revolution The Rise of British Racing Green Green cars began appearing more frequently on the grids of the the world’s Grand Prixs. BRM the first major British effort was floundering but Tony Vandervell (ed. a good Dutch name) who left...
Motor Racing History – 3.5-litre Naturally-Aspirated Engines, Active Suspension and Electronic Driver Aids 1989 was another McLaren year but this...
Motor Racing History – Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The...
Motor Racing History – Early Racecourse Development Racing on public roads was illegal in England and British drivers had to resort to racing in Ireland or on the continent. The British motor industry suffered as a consequence. In response to this a group of wealthy enthusiasts led by Hugh F....
Motor Racing History – Radical Technical Innovations & The Era of Ground-Effects The Birth of Ground-Effects Two major developments occurred...
Motor Racing History – Formula One And A World Championship For Drivers In 1946, following World War II, only four...
Motor Racing History – The Pre-War Grand Prix Period Formula Libre Grand Prix racing in accordance with a strict formula based on engine size and weight was abandoned in 1928.In its place, races were run under Formula Libre rules. In lieu of the major manufacturers, drivers raced as privateers or...
Motor Racing History – The Monsters F1 Turbo Engines The Turbo Years The war between FISA and FOCA continued into...
1937 Donington Grand Prix – When The Germans Came to Donington by Rodney Walkerley The Donington Grand Prix of 1937...
1921 French Grand Prix – When America Won The Grand Prix By Peter de Paolo After the Pay-off Banquet at Indianapolis where the prize money and the various trophies were awarded with the usual ceremony, we packed up, and the next day left for France, where Uncle Ralph de Palma...
1934 French Grand Prix – Giants in the Ring By Barré Lyndon Although the French Grand Prix had always been...
1935 German Grand Prix – The Maestro and the Pechvogel By Douglas S. Brown The proud aristocratic German felt that...
1938 Hungarian Grand Prix – Nuvolari Gets His Revenge By Dennis David In 1936 other cars known as die Silberpfeile or Silver Arrows raced in Hungary, that time on a 3.1 mille course within the Budapest Public Gardens. In the previous year the cars from Mercedes-Benz dominated the Grand Prix...
