Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
Pietro Bordino Biography Bordino was born in Turin, November 22, 1887. The son of a Fiat caretaker he would spend his early years around the factory before he was given a job as a mechanic. In 1904 he would become a racing mechanic to the works drivers, Vincenzo Lancia and...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was about to establish an Australian motor racing dynasty, but that is exactly what he did. Jack would win no fewer than three Formula One World Championships, the last in 1966...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in...
Like many designers I like to push the envelope, so, when answering the question about my consideration of my greatest...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain...
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum has organized a series of exhibitions of the most famous cars to bear the 250 moniker. These are the road-going and racing models which, between 1952 and 1963, sported the famous 3000-cc...
Lola Cars, the world’s oldest racing car constructor announced in mid-May that it was entering financial administration due to cash-flow...
Although my home was near to the Zandvoort circuit in Holland, my family had nothing to do with the motor...
The author found the Amon AF101 quite enjoyable to drive at Donington, now that it has been extensively developed—note particularly the twin canard fin nose treatment.Photo: Pete Austin One of the problems in writing this profile is the temptation to indulge in a long list of Chris Amon misfortunes—and there...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin Toward the end of my first period with Shadow, things weren’t working out too well, money...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just...
This painting shows the Talbot Lago driven by Louis Rosier being tended by a mechanic at the very first World Championship Formula One race at Silverstone in 1950. This naturally aspirated 4.2-liter car finished 4th behind three supercharged 1.5-liter Alfa Romeos. The artist says he likes this image for its grass field...
Maybe I’ll change my mind by the end of the column, but as I tap out this opening sentence, I...
Formula One – All the Races By Roger Smith This mighty 600 page-tome is the Formula One race version of...
The stars are beginning to align in preparation for the 2012 Donington Historic Festival on May 5–6, with early entrants including the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hours winner and ex-Formula One driver Jackie Oliver, who will share a 1961 250 GT SWB with Rohan Fernando in the Pre-’63 GT...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in...
A pair of events scheduled for later this year in England will celebrate the half century since Graham Hill became...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its 2012 Phil Hill Award at the RRDC dinner prior to January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented the award. Since...
Involved with mechancial things virtually all his life, John Barnard first worked in racing at Lola, then a fertile training...
It sounds like the title of a bad B-movie doesn’t it? They came from the great beyond. Legions of historic racecars hell-bent, with only one purpose…the survival and perpetuation of their own race! Da-Da-Daahhhh!!! While it might sound outlandish and far-fetched, it’s actually not. There is a growing movement afoot,...
