The Brabham BT24 was one of three cars that contested the 1967 Formula One racing season for the Brabham-Repco team....
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for Formula Junior. We have covered some important ground with this significant racing formula, and gotten to grips with Elva, Lotus, Stanguellini, Volpini, Autosud and more. As 2008 marks 50 years...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown,...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
My favorite Williams Formula One car, I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers World Championship. I know he only won the one race with the car, the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon, but he beat people like Piquet driving a Brabham that had...
Jack was born on April 2, 1926, and I think it’s appropriate that we all wish him a happy birthday....
Rubens Barrichello Nigel Mansell 1 Al Holbert drives a Chevrolet-powered March to victory in the IMSA Camel GT race at...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category that began the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Pete Lyons Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. Become a...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from 2.5 liters to 1.5 liters for the 1961 season, many constructors thought the changes would never be implemented and that the “lack of power” from smaller engines would not be...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
1964 Cooper–Maserati T61P By the time Roy Salvadori chased Bruce McLaren to the checkered flag at the Daily Express International Trophy meeting at Silverstone on May 2, 1964, sports car racing had already begun to change significantly. Roger Penske often gets the credit—or the blame—for what led to the real...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts like future Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, double Can-Am Champion Patrick Tambay, Indy 500 winners Danny Sullivan and Eddie Cheever, and FIA-GT Champion Klaus Ludwig. He got to within...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was still a Formula One newcomer. The Toleman team had been struggling for three years and had only begun to get a few results toward the end of 1983. While the...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be familiar with Fabulous Fifties columnist Art Evans and his previous books on both the drivers and the tracks of ’50s American sports car racing. In his latest work, Racing Sports...
At the end of 1969, during the height of the Ferrari-Porsche World Sports Car Championship “wars,” Jo Siffert was wined...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about his career and motor racing in general. He was very helpful when VR’s European Editor asked him to contribute to his Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, and he was just...
