Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip Island circuit revealed it to be a nimble, responsive and forgiving beast. Photo: Casey Annis Picture the scene: It is February 2006 and the Vintage Racecar team has gathered at the...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
Throughout history, men have always competed to go faster, farther, and higher than others, and during the past century much...
The Brabham BT24 was one of three cars that contested the 1967 Formula One racing season for the Brabham-Repco team....
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
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It was indeed a sad day for Australian historic racing enthusiasts when word came of the untimely passing of John...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man, in 1950, Emilio Giuseppe (Nino) Farina became the first driver to win the modern Formula One World Championship. The Italian was also famous for his laid-back (literally), straight-arm driving style,...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International l’Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
January 2009 The Automotive Art of Alan Fearnley Foreword by Murray Walker While there are—and have been—many fine automotive artists,...
Ford’s iconic GT40 will be the featured marque at this summer’s 10th annual Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman on...
Sir Stirling Moss, winner of 16 Formula One Grands Prix and countless other races, has been awarded the Royal Automobile Club’s Spirit of the Woodcote Trophy for his efforts in preparing his OSCA FS 372 for this year’s Spa Six Hours. Teaming with co-driver Roger Earl, Moss claimed victory in...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
Personally, I have driven some really good machines. I had a 917 Porsche that I thought was a truly remarkable...
There was something missing from the recent Olympics—motor sport. I can think of no good reason why, when we have synchronized swimming, the Franklin Mint of sport. The Arts were included in the Grecian Olympics, but the competitors had a shared cultural perspective. In 12 BC, King Herod sponsored the...
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Damon Hill OBE, president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and the 1996 Formula One World Champion, joined Richard ...
Patrick Morgan’s Dawn Treader Company has just completed a full restoration of the ex-Ivan Capelli, Leyton House, March CG891 Judd, chassis #03. The 1989 Formula One challenger, resplendent in its original racing livery, was wheeled out at Sywell Airport, Northampton, for these first pictures. This was Adrian Newey’s second Formula...
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ex-Phil Hill 1963 ATS F1 The 1961 Formula One World Champion Phil Hill did not learn that most of the important...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos by Hal Crocker His tender, healing hands bandaged and protected by gauze gloves to minimize the pain from his Indy burns, Denny Hulme earned the respect of one and all...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing...
How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly called him? As a journeyman? Or as a true gentleman who all but won the Formula One World Championship for drivers? The latter, I believe, would be a fair entry...
