Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike a chord for all racing enthusiasts: the German Grand Prix 1957, Monaco 1955, France 1979, Spa 1998. The year 1961 could account for three races on that list…Monaco, Nürburgring and...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
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At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the first time ever. Thirty-three years after winning the 1978 Formula One World Championship, Classic Team Lotus ran three JPS Type 79s, chassis 1, 2 and 3. This never happened in...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He won a superb battle with Peter Ryan’s Lotus 19. Penske was smooth…in every way. He was young, good-looking and very determined. My interest was also sparked by the fact that...
By now you will likely be aware that this month marks the 100th anniversary of that most hallowed of American...
Parnelli is not his real name. Rufus Jones’ middle name is Parnell. His mother named him after a Judge Parnell...
May 2011 Kiwis are Regular too! Dear Casey, I have just received my February issue of Vintage Racecar and read your interesting article on Regularity events, which you experienced at the recent HSRCA Tasman Revival meeting at Eastern Creek (a great event which I have raced at in 2008 and...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
Is it possible to have too many racecars? We didn’t think so either. With a growing number of interesting “Track...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus 98T chassis 004 was Ayrton Senna’s racecar for the latter part of the classic 1986 Formula 1 season. The car’s debut was at the last Grand Prix to be held...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
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...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too that, in the eyes of Colin Chapman, the writing may have been already on the wall. We were testing the Lotus 72 without wings, I had a major disagreement with...
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 Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half...
Former Team Lotus mechanic, Jim Endruweit, has passed away at age 83. He joined Colin Chapman and Lotus in 1957...
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...
Lotus 49 Car: Lotus-Ford 49 / Engine: 900 V8 Ford-Cosworth DFV / Maker: Lotus / Bore X Stroke: 85.7 x 64.8 mm...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
I had seen this well-used Lotus 18 sitting in a grumpy little foreign car repair shop hard along Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, California. The guy who owned the shop and the Lotus was named “Buck” something or another as I recall. I kept driving by and looking at that...
