I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in Grand Prix races but they often don’t recall that I did my time in the Tipo 33 sports cars. The start was at Daytona with the 2-liter car in 1968....
I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney,...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown,...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One,...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the globe, that have risen to such a high level, as to have garnered their historic “fame.” Certainly, British-racer Martin Stretton must rank near the top of these elite amateur racers....
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy,...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
July 2008 Gentleman Jack By Graham Gauld If you know who Jack Sears is, this book will fill in all the detail, and if you don’t, then read it anyway as a good example of how things were done in motor sport back in the 1950s and ’60s. Become a...
David and Lorina McLaughlin, founders of two historic racing series, which have evolved into the FIA Historic Formula One Championship...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the BRM P25 front-engine car as one of the best cars he has ever driven. “Great car–bad team” was basically his view. More about that later, though it was especially interesting...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
Every era has its own greatest racing car. I would like to go back to my boyhood where I have fond memories of a car that made a real impact on me, the Maserati 250F. Nick Mason gave me a wonderful opportunity to drive his 250F. It didn’t let me...
Jimmy Clark Biography Jimmy Clark was born in Kilmany, in the county of Fife to a Scottish farming family, roots...
In the pantheon of British racing greats, few have attained the near mythical status of Britain’s first Formula One World...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising and aerodynamic devices changed the sport forever. Is adversaries were some of the greatest names in Grand Prix history, Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Graham Hill and perhaps the greatest of...
Keith Duckworth Biography Since the partnership was formed in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth along with Bill Brown...
The Best Swedish Grand Prix Drivers Perhaps surprisingly, only ten Swedes have ever driven in Grands Prix. Though, eleven Swedish...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500 in his Texaco Star March Cosworth, it marked the culmination of a decade of effort at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. lightning quick Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer...
My favorite Williams Formula One car, I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers World Championship. I know he only won the one race with the car, the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon, but he beat people like Piquet driving a Brabham that had...
