Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was still a kid. Stan won the 1954 New Zealand International Grand Prix, four 1955 Victorian Trophies at Fisherman’s Bend, Melbourne, became the 1958 Australian Gold Star Champion and won the...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
January 2011 In the L&M F5000 Championship round at Michigan International Speedway on May 20, 1973, Peter Gethin raced this Chevron...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is either a hugely successful toy, or more specifically, an ordinary car that “transforms” into a larger-than-life fighting machine. In the case of this month’s featured profile car, both definitions would...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a handful of companies that can trace their motor racing heritage back to the start of the 20th century. But Alfa’s is a kind of pear-shaped pedigree, in which the Italian...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country,...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
It wasn’t the fact that Roy Lane won four British Hillclimb Championships, it was the timing of the wins. His first two came in the 1975 and 1976 seasons at the wheel of his McRae GM1-Chevrolet; his third championship was some 16 years later in 1992, and his final title...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports car racers of all time. He was only beaten to the unofficial title of the most successful by his longtime co-driver, Jacky Ickx, who has 37 wins. Born in Munich,...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
Accomplished American historic racer John Delane recently notched up another remarkable racing achievement by winning both the Class A FIA Historic Formula One Championship and the FIA Lurani Formula Junior Championship for 2007. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that Delane has now won five FIA Historic Formula One...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
While often overlooked in the annals of motorsport history, from 1963 to 1988 the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) provided...
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