That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
Former Team Lotus mechanic, Jim Endruweit, has passed away at age 83. He joined Colin Chapman and Lotus in 1957 and was a major contributor to the team. His 12-year service in the Fleet Air Arm gave him significant credentials to deal with the day to day logistics required. In...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
HSCC unveils 2-liter sports-racing car series The golden era of 2-liter sports racing cars in the 1970s will be brought back to life next season by a new series of races run by the Historic Sports Car Club. The initiative, which will take in four or five events in the...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
The BBC recently screened a documentary on the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Pierre Bouillon’s car was launched into the air...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races from 1970 to 1973. Ayrton Senna drove 98T/4 in eight races and several test sessions in 1986. These cars were the very first and the very last John Player Specials…they...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the non-championship F2 race at Falkenberg in Halland, Sweden (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even qualifying a stream of uncompetitive cars to becoming the 1982 Formula One World Champion the minute he had reliable machinery with which to lay his talent bare. I first met...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport continues to get older, there will be many more. 50 Years of Lister Jaguar to 60 Years of Lotus, everyone gets a celebration or at least a tribute these days....
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
March 2010 The Toleman Story By Christopher Hilton After Ayrton Senna dominated British Formula Three, he tested for four F1 teams. Only one owner offered him a contract, however, Ted Toleman. It was a brilliant move, but apart from Senna’s single season of emerging brilliance in its cars, Team Toleman...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
Jean Sage, who headed up Renault’s original factory effort in Formula One, has died at the age of 68 at his home in Annecy, France. Originally a rally codriver, sports car racer, and Formula Three driver, Sage became involved with Gerard Larrousse and Paul Archembaud in creating the Ecurie Elf...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo:...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born (1980). 2 The first road races are held through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York. They are also the first post-WWII races held in the United States and the...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
September 2009 Led away from the start by Graham Hill’s Rondel Racing Brabham BT36, the field for the August 30,...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4 of the FIA Formula Two Championship at Brands Hatch, England. The accident happened, on Sunday, July 19th, midway through race 2 when he was struck by an errant wheel from...
