Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
In the early 1980s, the Marlboro British F3 Championship was reckoned the most desirable to be in. The top three...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings and raspings of the commonplace European engines. Beware, that unearthly cry proclaimed. We are coming. Pete Lyons It was at Watkins Glen in 1964, the next to last year of...
Modena Aerautodromo, May 1969; Nello Ugolini, second from left, then overseeing de Tomaso’s competition activities, watches Jonathan Williams about to...
The 2005 Walter Hayes Trophy meeting at Silverstone took me full circle back to Formula Ford, the formula I started...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
March 2018 Second to None The European Formula 2 Story: From Ickx to Thackwell and from Rindt to Streiff By Chris Ellard Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in...
1976 Cheetah Mk6 AF2 Fifteen years is a long time in the automotive world, and I suspect that within the...
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...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived...
Pedro Rodriguez Peter Ryan 2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly but don’t make it to the grid, and then they disappear. Thanks to historic racing and car collecting fever, however, a number have managed to rise from the ashes. VR...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand...
On his way to 5th place overall in the 1955 East London Winter Handicap, John Hanning (Aston-Nash) leads Roy Humphreys...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and...
Without doubt the greatest racing car is one I’ve not driven. I’ll explain later. It’s my hero’s, Jim Clark’s Lotus...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, Formula Two and Formula Three were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
I’m always a little bit shocked when I see the worlds of modern and historic racing intersect. Recently, I was...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford and Atlantic, then won the Tasman Series down under before tackling British F3 during perhaps its best season ever. A single season of F1 peaked his career, before a Mexican...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
