1969 Rennmax BN3Photo: Ian Welsh It can’t be denied that the world of motor racing, both contemporary and historic, is...
The French Grand Prix, Le Mans, July 2, 1967 The Mexican driver Pedro Rodriguez in the Cooper-Maserati V12. Rodriguez would...
On New Year’s Day of 1967 the South African Champion, John Love, was pipped at the post in the season opening South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his Tasman Cooper faltered in the closing stages whilst comfortably in the lead and was forced to stop for fuel because of...
In a recent “Last Lap” [60 Years of the Upscale Mini] I considered the expensive customized Minis of the Swinging Sixties,...
Casey Annis speaks with historic racer and founder of The Masters Series, Ron Maydon, about why he chose to start...
This book is about a unique car in sports car racing history. It was designed by Peter Brock, famous for his work on the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coup and the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray. The Lang Cooper was entered in the American USRRC, United States Road Racing Championship, by no...
The story of the Cooper Car Company is well known where father and son team Charles and John Cooper in...
The Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Stirling Moss, in the Cooper, on his way to another victory....
Photo: Chris Mann This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard Attwood’s Cooper, had impressed the MRP gang and for 1963 I was offered a full season with them in a brand-new car. The team had done a deal with Lola...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
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, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the sad passing of Dan Gurney so it has happened once more. Dan was part of that wave of American drivers from the ’50s sports car racing scene who all arrived...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
February 2018 The Crystal Palace Trophy, Crystal Palace, June 11, 1962. At the start, it’s Roy Salvadori on pole in the Reg Parnell Racing’s Lola 4, with Bruce McLaren’s Cooper 55 alongside and Trevor Taylor, in the works Lotus 24-BRM, on the inside. The eventual winner would be Innes Ireland,...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school education, he worked as an apprentice machinist with Peter Brotherhood Ltd. of Peterborough. National Service beckoned and a spell with the Royal Air Force honed his mechanical and engineering abilities...
1983 Tyrrell 012/01-Cosworth The Tyrrell proved to be nimble and responsive around the dunes of Zandvoort. Photo: Pete Austin Since the...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville,...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on the windscreen of the #24 Matra driven by Henri Pescarolo and Johnny Servoz-Gavin. There were so many things that made a lasting impression on my first visit to Le Mans...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
August 2017 Datsun vs. Ferrari Dear Editor, Read with some amusement your comment on the similarities between the Daytona and the 240Z. Couldn’t help thinking about Rhod Gainer a character from the New Zealand comedy, Small Poppies. He spent five years turning his 240Z into a 275 GTB/4. Become a...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined them in 1947, having done two years training at the Technical College, as their only apprentice. At that time, Brian Lister, grandson of George and son of Horace, had just...
