Formula 1: All the Races, 1950-2015 By Roger Smith With the Formula One World Championship celebrating its 65th year and...
Despite the weather, the IROC Camaro proved capable on both the oval track at Rockingham and Silverstone’s club circuit. Photo: Pete Austin...
The world of Formula One enjoyed a jolt of much needed excitement during the recent Spanish Grand Prix, when young Max Verstappen became the youngest driver to ever win a Grand Prix—at the tender age of 18. Verstappen can now add this F1 landmark to another he earned last year...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
It started with a phone call from the photographer/journalist Bernard Cahier. He said, “Carl Haas has a problem. Brian Redman...
When I was young, growing up in Spain was very difficult for lovers of motor racing. The Spanish were then known for bull fighting, football and golf. In the 1960s, I saw Harry Källström driving the Lancia Fulva in the Rally of Spain, part of the European Rally Championship. Harry...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his...
Denny Hulme Gianpiero Moretti 1 Gober Sosebee, driving a Chrysler, wins the NASCAR Grand National race at Hayloft Speedway in Augusta, Georgia (1952). 2 Henri Pescarolo and Gerard Larrousse drive a Matra M670B/C to victory in the 1000-kilometer sports car race at Imola, Italy (1974). Become a Member & Get...
What kind of racing driver is it who forgets how many times he’s won? One of the most successful, of...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy...
Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks By Brian Redman with Jim Mullen It’s always good to see a new book hit the shelves reminiscing about the era those of a certain age regard as the “golden years” of motor racing. Well-informed authors write many of these books, but their...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929,...
Vintage and historic racing—at least as we enjoy it today in the United States—has been around since the 1970s. That’s nearly 40 years of “re-creating the good ol’ days” by racing and running obsolete racecars. Over those 40 years, the sport has certainly changed and evolved and key events have...
It took a racing department of 240 people and a huge budget to put Michael Schumacher on top of the...
I’d raced the Cosworth-powered Ensign N174 at the 1974 USGP at Watkins Glen, it was my fourth time in the...
Some years ago I was invited to talk “motor sport” at a winter club evening in Bristol and the evening seemed to be going really well until I “dropped a brick.” It happened during the question period, and I was standing before my audience when someone asked, “What do you...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
The Argentine Temporada Motor Races – 1950 to 1960 By Hernan Lopez Laiseca Originally organized as a way to prove...
Imagine driving your homebuilt special, powered by a modified production car engine, in two World Championship Grands Prix and finishing 10th in the second one. These days that would earn you a World Championship point. Here de Klerk fends off a challenge with his Alfa Romeo Special during the 1962...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
The 1982 Porsche 956 was a car that we started with a clean sheet of paper. Everything was new, the...
Over the last few weeks, preparations for the 2016 Grand Prix season have been hectic as the teams have to pass their safety checks and manage all the other schedules, documentation, travel arrangements, etc. These all have to be completed before they can start the new season. Whatever the excitement...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows”...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
In this profile we explore the life and afterlife of a more modern Formula One car. Indeed, what does happen to old Formula One cars? I mean those multi-million dollar hi-tech racers of not too many years ago. Each and every year the dozen, or so, competing teams produce a...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second seat at Ferrari and kept it for four years—no mean feat in itself—where he developed just the right blend of acquiescence and competitiveness to create a positive working relationship with...
