Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
Wealthy Belgian aristocrat Olivier Gendebien has the unique distinction of being Ferrari’s most successful GT and sports car racer. He...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at the end of 1982. In 1978 I did five Grands Prix for McLaren in a third car. I don’t remember exactly how Alfa Romeo contacted me, but they wanted to...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA) in 1950, with its first race being the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It began as a World Championship for drivers, but since it also featured the...
March 2010 The Toleman Story By Christopher Hilton After Ayrton Senna dominated British Formula Three, he tested for four F1...
Rumblings of discontent have turned into a pandemonium of protest in the offices of the Province of Monza. Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is reported to have signed a seven-year deal, beginning in 2011 with an option for another five years, to stage a Formula One Grand Prix around the...
All the living Formula One World Champions are expected to participate in F1’s 60th Anniversary celebrations over the weekend of...
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early career started in karts, which would be 1983. Four years later, aged 18 years, I moved on to Formula Ford, progressing to the German Formula 3 championship in 1989, driving...
Bobby Unser François Cevert 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive the Löwenbrau Porsche 962...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
Billing itself as “the largest selection of vintage racing photos on the Internet,” Dale LaFollette’s Vintage Motorphoto is a resource...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world. Yet the Italian manufacturer has won no fewer than 19 motor sport world championships: well, 18½ really, but more of that later. The fact remains that theirs is a pedigree...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that...
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...
This painting depicts Graham Hill and the BRM 261, which he drove to victory in the 1964 U.S. Grand Prix...
When I were but a lad, my notion of a perfect Saturday was to walk down to the train station in our suburban village and ride the half hour into New York City, where I would spend hours upon hours wandering the marvel-strewn halls of the American Museum of Natural...
Most readers should be familiar with the work of Bernard Cahier and his son Paul-Henri as chroniclers of the Formula...
The new Historic Motorsports Productions organization has scheduled three events for its inaugural 2010 season. Watkins Glen International was the...
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...
Holiday Gift Guide 2009 Oyster Perpetual Datejust II $7,525 41mm, stainless steel case, 18kt white gold fluted bezel, 31 jewel...
“Once upon a time”— is the way most children’s fairytales start, but this is no French fairytale. Although it is...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple stopwatch. This meant that the men in the cockpits could still make a difference in the performance of their cars, and George Follmer was one of those men. The Phoenix-born...
