Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try...
Brabham-Alfa BT46 Car: Brabham-Alfa BT46 / Engine: Flat-12 Alfa Romeo / Maker: Brabham / Bore X Stroke: 77 x 53.9 mm / Year: 1978 / Capacity: 2,995 cc (182.8 cu in) / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 500 bhp / 373 KW @ 11,500 rpm / Wheelbase: 2,590 mm (102...
Joaquin Folch took victory in the sixth round of the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix World Championship at Donington Park on...
Building on a remarkable 70-year racing pedigree, David Brabham has announced Brabham’s return to manufacturing at a gala event in...
Brabham-Repco BT-19 Car: Brabham-Repco / Engine: V-8 Oldsmobile / Maker: Brabham / Bore X Stroke: 88.9 X 60.3 mm / Year: 1966 Capacity: 2,996 cc / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 315 bhp at 7,800 rpm / Wheelbase: 91 in Track: 56 in / Weight: 1,259 lbs / Tires: Originally...
Famed racing car designer Ron Tauranac has passed away at the age of 95. Tauranac first came to fame in...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that father and son Geoff and Matt Brabham will race 1971 Brabham BT35...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of 1984 there really was only one car to choose—the Ralt RT3. Designed by Ron Tauranac, the Ralt RT3 was a class apart. From its first appearance in 1979 to its...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
Mike Costin (left) and Keith Duckworth. A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the...
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Piers Courage raced this Frank Williams-entered Brabham BT26A-Cosworth in the 1969 French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand’s Charade circuit, but was...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown,...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls, Motschenbachers, Parsonses, Poseys, Rodriguezes, Sifferts, many more…none of them ever won a race. How surprising is it that so much talent came up so dry? Pete Lyons Frankly, not that...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed a whole racing car must draw up a new mount for an F1 World Champion. Constructed clandestinely in an old woodshed, the machine proves so fast that it sets a...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the...
Tim Schenken I came from the Brabham team in 1971 into the Surtees team for 1972 to partner Mike Hailwood....
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in the hands of a dedicated engineer or enthusiast. Names like Colin Chapman (Lotus), John Cooper (Cooper) and Eric Broadley (Lola) are just a few of such individuals that set out...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
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From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior, but with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
