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...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its tanks still first-lap full, was simply what one does when action must be instantaneous. He says he didn’t even think about it. Yet the rescue will forever define this American...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country,...
Rick Parsons and Don Devine have formed the Vintage Indy Racing Group to facilitate the further inclusion of Indycar racing...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and then onto Formula Three. However, had it not been for the support of Alan McKechnie, I may not have “made it” at all. Injury, too, was something that hindered me....
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a positive mood. The heady days of lavish opulence have hit hard times everywhere, and while it has to be said that the show is but a shadow of its former...
March 2010 The Toleman Story By Christopher Hilton After Ayrton Senna dominated British Formula Three, he tested for four F1...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me writing about the fifties, the fabulous fifties as it were. After all, this was what I was known for. I had written seven books about the decade. One of my...
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...
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...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup...
Australian racing legend Frank Gardner died on August 29 after a long illness. He was 78. Gardner was not only a success in many areas of motor racing, but he was also a genuine larger-than-life character, and virtually all who knew him have hilarious tales to tell about him. He...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America to match its demographic. The group’s three principals—three-time National Champion and 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal, Just Marketing founder Zak Brown, and longtime vintage racer and entrepreneur Peter Stoneberg—made...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that was mistakenly labeled. This 3-minute video segment features racing legend Frank Gardner taking the viewer on a lap of Oulton Park, in 1973. The quality of the video is excellent...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth, he was a classic all-rounder from the same mold as contemporaries Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, and A.J. Foyt. He started out driving midgets and sprint cars in his...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded...
The Historic Sports Car Club’s Derek Bell Trophy will have a new look for 2009, following confirmation that MSA championship status has been granted to the series for the first time. Now to be known as the HSCC Historic F5000/F2 Championship for the Derek Bell Trophy, the category will be...
