Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada....
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives each country the choice of approved chassis and engines, each one limited to 150 bhp, but everyone runs the same kit within the national series. One-spec formulae, I hate ’em....
Tony Griffiths.Photo: Kary Jiggle For me, motors and motoring were in my blood and my genes. After the first World...
Rick HallPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first part of this interview, Rick Hall told of his initial foray into the...
Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type Jaguar’s legs during a Goodwood Revival.Photo: Roger Dixon My first open-wheeled car was a Lotus 22, in fact it was one of the cars used in the filming of Grand Prix. When I first got the car it still had the Jordan BRM...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Unless you’ve somehow managed to live completely “off the grid” for the past few months, by now...
Mark Knopfler driving his Maserati 300S in the Maserati Centenary Trophy race at Donington. Photo: Pete Austin As a boy, my racing hero was Stirling Moss. I remember watching him on television, in 1959, racing a front-engined BRM, and that was the inspirational moment, the time I became hooked on...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
BRM Type 15 Car: BRM Type 15 / Engine: 135º V16 Supercharged / Maker: BRM / Bore X Stroke: 49.5 mm x 47.8 mm / Year: 1950 / Capacity: 1,496 cc / Class: Special / Power: 525 bhp / 392 KW @ 10,500 rpm / Wheelbase: 2489 mm / Track:...
For the International Formula Libre Race at the British Grand Prix meeting at Silvertone, July 18, 1953, Juan Manuel Fangio...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren,...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the way. I thought I could become a decent single-seater driver in the various club events that existed at the time. I was studying Autosport one day in late 1968 and...
Devin in the Details Photo: Jeff Mach Dear Casey, I would like to add a few things to my friend...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an “Ancien Pilotes” demonstration race in the late 1960s. Photo: J Pearson Archive Aspiration and reality are often diametrically opposed. Dreams, however, do come true every time an amateur driver clambers aboard, or wriggles into, a Grand Prix car once raced by a sporting...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed...
Streets of Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK October 7, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, the sleepy market town streets of Bourne came alive to the sound...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
Artist Carter says he’s not alone in loving the BRM for the sound of its engine: a 16-cylinder, 1.5-liter Rolls Royce unit whose supercharger was closely related to the version fitted to the Merlin engine of the Spitfire and Mustang. That it also happened to be a beautiful machine was...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
Privateer Bruce Halford took part in the epic 1957 German Grand Prix, finishing 11th in his Maserati 250F. It was...
