• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill, the number one driver of the Ferrari works team and 1961 Formula One World Champion. Born in Miami, Florida, on April 20, 1927, the Santa Monica, California, resident had joined...
Mecum Auctions shocked the auction world with the late May announcement that they would be offering two icons from racing...
1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin Toward the end of my first period with Shadow, things weren’t working out too well, money was getting tight and I couldn’t really get on with my job, as I wanted to. There were cutbacks here and there, and it made life difficult. There were lots...
Involved with mechancial things virtually all his life, John Barnard first worked in racing at Lola, then a fertile training ground for many men who would impact racecar design. Upon “graduating” from Lola he went to work alongside Gordon Coppuck at McLaren to develop the M23. In 1975 he joined the...
Lord March has announced that the dates for the 20th Goodwood Festival of Speed will be June 28–July 1, with...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Bev BondPhoto: Pete Austin I was born with a competitive spirit, my father represented Great Britain at Speedway, my mother and two of my aunts rode Speedway bikes, too. I suppose Speedway should have been my sport, on the contrary, I preferred four wheels and made my mark in kart...
Lotus Bashing? Photo: Pete Austin Dear Editor, OK, we get it, Mike Lawrence doesn’t like Colin Chapman. Like all critics, Lawrence...
John Coombs was literally born into the motoring business, as his multi-talented craftsman father was already working with automobiles when...
Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at a rainy Speedway [Indy]. This issue’s even better than normal, well done to everybody involved, please pass on my thanks to the team there. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the...
Parnelli is not his real name. Rufus Jones’ middle name is Parnell. His mother named him after a Judge Parnell whom she admired. Jones’ friend, Billy Calder, added the “i” to his middle name to make a name change when Parnelli wanted to race while underage. I remember drivers in...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
At the time of writing, the McLaren MP4-12C is an unknown quantity. Regardless of how well it does, it is a landmark. The main load-bearing structure, what McLaren calls a “Monocell” is carbon fiber, using a system similar to injection moulded plastic. This has been the automotive equivalent of the...
Former Team Lotus mechanic, Jim Endruweit, has passed away at age 83. He joined Colin Chapman and Lotus in 1957...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
February 2011 Inside the Archives By Jesse Alexander Looking through stacks of old photographs I’m often struck by generally unseen images that didn’t “make the cut” for publication in the newspapers and magazines of their day. Often depicting groups of people in pits or paddock, they were probably judged not...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
Trevor Taylor’s life as a racing driver began on a windswept airfield at Gamston, Nottinghamshire, England. His father held a...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic on Jochen Rindt’s car—he was now the number one driver for Gold Leaf Team Lotus. Eddie Dennis was the number one mechanic and my immediate boss. As a mechanic, I...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago....
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a gathering of every model of Lotus Formula 1 car from the Lotus 12 to the current Lotus 127, a total of 35 different models. Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder...
