Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half a century to the first such noble experiment. Pete Lyons It was 1959 when promoter Alec Ulmann staged the inaugural United States Grand Prix (USGP) on the old airport course...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
Historic motor racing organizer Masters Historic Racing has confirmed details of its series of races for Group C /GTP/IMSA sports...
Derek Gardner will be remembered, by many, as the designer of one of the most radically designed cars ever to win a Grand Prix; the Tyrrell Project 34 six-wheeler. However, they overlook his greatest achievement as the designer of racing cars that took the Tyrrell team to 16 Grand Prix...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was still a kid. Stan won the 1954 New Zealand International Grand Prix, four 1955 Victorian Trophies at Fisherman’s Bend, Melbourne, became the 1958 Australian Gold Star Champion and won the...
February 2011 During the J.C.C. International Trophy race at Brooklands, U.K., on May 6, 1939, Kenneth Evans is shown at...
February 2011 Inside the Archives By Jesse Alexander Looking through stacks of old photographs I’m often struck by generally unseen...
With Sir Frank Williams as our interview subject this month, we thought it might be a good idea to send you even deeper into the Williams Grand Prix world by delving into the history of the F1 operation on the team’s web site. While the menu bar for the rest...
Tazio Nuvolari has found a new home, or at least his museum has. The museum devoted to him and his...
A new and exciting chapter was written in the competition history of Triumph with the Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths to some, especially on dirt-covered roads—there were equally a corresponding number that were miniscule in comparison, many almost fragile in appearance. At first some of these small cars suffered ridicule...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally...
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY September 9–12, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The FIA’s vaunted Formula One World Championship celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, with gala reunions of all its living...
On behalf of Australia’s Victorian Historic Racing Register (VHRR), well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings is seeking four cars and drivers to participate in an event featuring cars that would have, or could have, taken part in the 1956 Australian Grand Prix and the 1956 Australian Tourist Trophy races. This event...
The future of one of Britain’s greatest race circuits, Donington Park, has been spectacularly confirmed by the launch of its...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five days after the Nazis invaded Poland to ignite World War II. His father Howard had invented the Mechamatic gearbox that not only provided his family with sustenance, but ultimately determined...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw, way down under his bluff bow, was my little white Volvo 122S hustling uphill just as hard. Obviously, both of us were enthusiasts caught up in the joyous rhythm of...
Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL July 24–25, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA July 24–25, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound of vintage motor racing. The circuit closed last year for major landscaping work instigated by new leaseholders whose ambitious plan to extend and re-profile the facility and wrest the British...
