During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
Illustrating Patrick Quinn’s article on the Bira MG K3 (VR December, 2009) was a photograph of Ron Uffindel, who frequently...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as the headline, plus pod things, which I do not understand. Every week it features a new supercar, and even then it doesn’t get all of them, supercars are everywhere. England...
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to...
April 2010 Racing for Mercedes-Benz By Hartmut Lehbrink With the re-entry of Mercedes-Benz into Grand Prix racing as a factory...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a positive mood. The heady days of lavish opulence have hit hard times everywhere, and while it has to be said that the show is but a shadow of its former...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of...
For all the talk today of “level playing fields” and equal opportunities for all, it has to be understood that...
The death of Peter Arundell promptsmemory of a challenge. Formula Junior was once Formula Arundell; he won twice as many major races as any other driver. Actually, the presence of Arundell and his Lotus defined what were major races. After Arundell had won at the Nürburgring at the end of...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
Keith Duckworth Biography Since the partnership was formed in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth along with Bill Brown and Benny Rood, Cosworth has become the most successful independent engine manufacturer in history with a string of driver and manufacturer titles to its credit in a wide range of...
I’ve spoken here, on several occasions, about the numerous unfulfilled rumors that have swirled through Formula One over the years,...
My father, the late Colin Chapman and founder of the Lotus name, was driven by ambition—ambition to be the best...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what the fuss is about. The team will be no more Colin than the Bugatti Veyron is Ettore. The good news is that the entrepreneur behind the revival knows the score;...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor pal Mike Doodson, live before a throng of thousands. Nominally, “The Dood” was a journalist like me, and remains so today, but for a few seasons in the ’70s, he...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
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...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the BRM P25 front-engine car as one of the best cars he has ever driven. “Great car–bad team” was basically his view. More about that later, though it was especially interesting...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
Jimmy Clark Biography Jimmy Clark was born in Kilmany, in the county of Fife to a Scottish farming family, roots...
1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop for 50 years? Answer: two. Let me refine the question a bit. How many manufacturers of only racing cars have been going for 50 years and are still in international...
