My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those horrific things are said to have happened to Captain Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams, Grand Prix winner, member of the wartime ultra-secret French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive and French...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 4, 2009 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 most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
Unquestionably, one of the most dominating racing cars was the Mercedes W196, particularly with drivers such as Fangio and Moss...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into thinking they could buy a production machine and go racing? This 1953 Healey did just that, essentially a production car that found glory at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia....
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
Pat Moss-Carlsson, the younger sister of Stirling and wife of Erik, died after a long illness on October 14. She...
December 2008 Birdcage Buzz Dear Editor, Your magazines arrived today and they certainly look like a lot of fun. Incidentally, Stirling [Moss] drove that Camoradi Maser Birdcage at the 1960 Sebring where I drove Donald Healey’s little Falcon-bodied Sprite. He lapped me about every seven laps, with a cheerful wave...
I write this month’s column from Monterey, as myself, most of our staff, and about 3,000-pounds of magazines are here...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person, to date, to be so honored by the Monterey Historics. A weekend packed with his cars, his victories, and a reenactment, as far as it was possible, of his glorious...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the...
Monaco, Monte Carlo May 10–11, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One, has been killed in a head-on crash during a vintage rally near his South African home city of George. A mini van apparently pulled out from behind a truck into...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 22, 1966. Jackie Stewart at the Loews Hairpin on his way to a...
Monte Carlo, Monaco February 1–6, 2008 Eric Comas Alpine A110 1800 tackles the climb to the Col d’Echarasson.Photo: Peter Collins...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived a life dominated by motorsport. Whether going to pre-war races with his father, racing himself in F2 or leading the BRM race organization, Tim Parnell has played an integral role...
It’s time to talk NASCAR. It usually is. NASCAR’s calendar is the longest in racing, so it has the shortest...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was...
My father ran in the first NASCAR Cup race in 1949, when I was 11 years old, but I went along to spectate. When I was old enough, I became a racer too. Let me say though I was nearly 21 years old before I sat behind a wheel to...
In 1980, people laughed when they heard Audi was developing a four-wheel-drive rally car. Hadn’t Ford tried that with their...
As a young mechanic Tony Robinson answered an ad for work with London’s Ray Martin Motors. Little did he know...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport, however, had always fascinated me as a child and I wanted to be involved in some way, shape or form. There were a series of races in South Africa that...
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most...
Rick Mears Alain Prost 1 John Surtees drives a Ferrari 312 to victory in the nonchampionship Syracuse Grand Prix in...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 25–31, 2007 Choc’s BMW 2002 Tii.Photo: Peter Collins 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 most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers...