This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
Hans-Joachim Stuck leads a pack of FVs and FSVs at the Daytona Golden Anniversary celebration.Photo: Bruce Lancaster Formula Vee celebrated...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at the Belgian Grand Prix that year, the Lotus 79 became the car to beat. Between them, Andretti and Peterson would notch an impressive six wins with their Lotus 79s—with our...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as stepping stones to Formula One and the...
Here’s a site dedicated to chronicling the first 50 years of Formula Three racing. It covers the formula from its...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early years with Lola and McLaren, how he developed his design philosophy and then looked at his experiences in Indycar racing and, back in Formula One, with McLaren and Ferrari. In...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives a kart for the first time (1980). 3 Giuseppi Campari gives Alfa Romeo its first GP win when he drives a P2 to victory in the Grand Prix of France...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created 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 World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced single-seater...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
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...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158 crashes in heavy rain during practice for the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten (1948). 4 A.J. Foyt wins the Firecracker 400 NASCAR stock car race at Daytona, Florida (1964). Become...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
Whatever the 2010 Formula One season holds in the way of drama, scandal, and controversy, there will be one point of genuine interest, and that is whether Michael Schumacher can still cut it. Schumacher is the ideal yardstick. He retired on top of his game and there was no driver...
All the living Formula One World Champions are expected to participate in F1’s 60th Anniversary celebrations over the weekend of...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
Personally, I have driven some really good machines. I had a 917 Porsche that I thought was a truly remarkable car, and a 962, too. The only Indy car I had wished I had been able to race was the turbine car, because it was so dominant when it ran....
September 2008 Abarth–The Man, The Machines By Luciano Greggio As outlined in this month’s feature article (pg. 52), over the...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a government official he spent much of his childhood in the Brazilian capital, Brasília. At the age of 14 he was participating in kart races and was crowned Brazilian kart champion...
