In this guide we are going to cover the popular single-seater series of Formula B, Formula Atlantic and Formula Two....
Pedro Rodriguez Peter Ryan 2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash during the Formula Junior race at Reims, France (1962). 4 Frank Verbeck wins $50,000 when he drives a Fiat to victory in the 444-mile Pan-Pacific Road Race from Los Angeles...
The 2005 Walter Hayes Trophy meeting at Silverstone took me full circle back to Formula Ford, the formula I started...
From 1964–1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and...
I made my first visit to the Silverstone circuit in the 1960s. It was just a mission of curiosity at first but I was soon bitten hard by the racing bug, and club racing was my staple diet for the first few years. I was particularly involved with the embryonic...
A friend phoned saying he had been offered a CTG, and the vendor claimed it had been designed by Len...
One of the best cars I have driven is the Alfa Romeo 155 V-6 Ti which I used to compete...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting in any environment, but here, at Pau, in the Parc Beaumont, the noise bounced around between the Armco barrier and the park benches, but then was trapped under the trees...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations,...
In the early 1980s, the Marlboro British F3 Championship was reckoned the most desirable to be in. The top three...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
The Formula Junior Category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If you remember him at all, it will be for his one-man attempt to rescue his friend and fellow F1 driver, Roger Williamson, from a burning car during the 1973 Grand...
In the late 1960s—1969 I think—I started racing motorbikes in local races in Belgium. Not too powerful machines, just 50-cc,...
From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy of Motor Sport. Many years later, I was chatting with James Weaver at Silverstone, who said, “Bloody Denis Jenkinson, it’s thanks to him I’m in my current mess.” In 1957,...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
I can still hear my father, Walter Hayes, saying to me: “Sit there and do not, under any circumstances, move.” It was March 1968, I was 10 years old, and in the pits at Brands Hatch during a test session in preparation for the BOAC 500. My father had entered...
As a young mechanic Tony Robinson answered an ad for work with London’s Ray Martin Motors. Little did he know...
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the names of Leo and Ian (aka Pete) Geoghegan became known thoughout almost every...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was still a Formula One newcomer. The Toleman team had been struggling for three years and had only begun to get a few results toward the end of 1983. While the...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian Grand Prix,” said Gunnar Axel Arvid Nilsson. Nevertheless, he should also be remembered—in the words of Nick Jordan, mechanic to Gunnar’s rival Tony Brise in Formula Atlantic—as “one of the...
