From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
February 2011 Inside the Archives By Jesse Alexander Looking through stacks of old photographs I’m often struck by generally unseen images that didn’t “make the cut” for publication in the newspapers and magazines of their day. Often depicting groups of people in pits or paddock, they were probably judged not...
Story by Will Silk and photos by Richard Parramint Team Lotus discovered the use of ground effect with the Type...
A couple of years and a bit ago I suggested in this spot that, during these times of economic stress,...
By Will Silk Amidst the rumors and ongoing legal battles between Group Lotus and the 2010 Team Lotus race organization run by Tony Fernandes, Group Lotus announced they will indeed return to the arena of Formula 1 racing in 2011. Group Lotus is better known for the production of the...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed to stock car meetings at a track near my home in Dublin City, Ireland. I crashed it, bashed it, took it home after the race and fixed it, so I...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Peter Warr, who will be best remembered as the man who served as team manager for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus...
Trevor Taylor’s life as a racing driver began on a windswept airfield at Gamston, Nottinghamshire, England. His father held a time trial between him and his older brother, Mike. The track was a straight, a hairpin bend and back to the start. Trevor, driving the X100 they had just built,...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed a whole racing car must draw up a new mount for an F1 World Champion. Constructed clandestinely in an old woodshed, the machine proves so fast that it sets a...
November 2010 Can-Am Cars in Detail By Pete Lyons and Peter Harholdt Only in the 1960s could the Can-Am have...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
The indomitable Sir Stirling Moss made a popular comeback after his frightening accident at his home in March to join one thousand drivers racing in the Silverstone Classic Festival between July 23–25. At the wheel of his own 1956 OSCA FS372, co-driven by Ian Nuthall, Sir Stirling competed in the...
The Henry Ford Museum’s newly restored Lotus 38, the first rear-engined car to win the Indianapolis 500, made its North...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
This month’s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own experience as a Lotus owner. Or rather, the strange path I took to become a Lotus owner. It was the early days of the Internet as a tool to find...
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago....
October 2010 2010 Lotus Evora Let’s face it, historically to be a Lotus road car owner you needed to suffer for your art. Lotus road cars always yielded pretty uncompromising performance, but that performance invariably came at the cost of comfort, or day-to-day driveability, or even build quality. In short,...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in 2011. Although the 1600-cc Formula 3 era was relatively short-lived, running for just three seasons, it was a time when many future Grand Prix stars were making their name in...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as...
Tom Walkinshaw began his racing career as just another youngster trying to find ways to indulge his passions, and by...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice became the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
