Following an extremely successful inaugural season in 2007 the GT & Sports Car Cup race series for Pre-66 GTs and...
As touched upon in this month’s interview with one-time BRM (British Racing Motors) team manager Tim Parnell, the Bourne-based Grand Prix team enjoyed a long, and sometimes star-crossed, history. Built by Raymond Mays, on the prewar foundations laid with the creation of the ERA line of racecars, BRM was conceived...
The famous Monza banking is not to be bulldozed or even just preserved. Under a new, 19-year agreement between the...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian Grand Prix,” said Gunnar Axel Arvid Nilsson. Nevertheless, he should also be remembered—in the words of Nick Jordan, mechanic to Gunnar’s rival Tony Brise in Formula Atlantic—as “one of the...
Motor Racing Legends has been invited by the organizers of the Coppa Intereuropa, the highly prestigious historic race meeting at...
Today the name Rahal is synonymous with motor racing. Bobby Rahal has entered the history books as a top Indianapolis...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
As a young mechanic Tony Robinson answered an ad for work with London’s Ray Martin Motors. Little did he know...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning two World Championships—with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt. Here, he shares with Keith Booker some of his recollections of those early days. How did you first become involved in motor...
His contemporaries called him the “Garibaldino,” a term they reserved for the best of their select band. Like Giuseppe Garibaldi,...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G2 The author gets up to speed on the banking of England’s Rockingham Speedway. Photo: Mike Jiggle When Champ Cars made a very rare appearance in Europe a couple of years ago, many of us thought this would be a dream come true for those people who...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but...
As we’ve done each of the ten years we’ve now been in publication, this month we focus all of the content within this issue around the featured marque at this year’s Monterey Historics. In this year’s case, we pay tribute to the famed Indy Roadster. Oddly enough, over the course...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first...
Vincenzo Lancia Keith Duckworth 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a...
Robert Benoist Mika Hakkinen 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the World Endurance Champonship race at Spa, Belgium. The Martini LC2 of Bob Wolleck, Mauro Baldi, and Ricardo Patrese is awarded the win after the race is stopped (1985). 2 Australian...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International...
The Monza motor racing circuit, which the locals call the Autodromo di Monza, lives to fight another day, or maybe more. The state authorities of Lombardy, of which Milan is the capital, has overturned an order made against the circuit last November by the Court of Milan to drastically reduce...
