Photo Gallery from the Aug. 25-27 running of the HSCC’s Gold Cup at Oulton Park....
Photo: Chris Mann This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age or other circumstances, how to fill the time is an initial worry. Author Mike Allen’s project to fill his time was to research the Oulton Park International Gold Cup races....
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has released its schedule of events for the third year of its Golden Jubilee World Tour (noted below as WT), as well as its participation in the FIA’s Lurani Trophy Series (LT), the HSCC’s UK Championship (UK) and the European Series (ES). Given the...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting — held at Donington Park...
Equipe Classic Racing is planning to launch a new competition class in 2018, especially for Pre-1963 GT and Production racing cars running on Dunlop Historic tires. Building on the success of its clubman series for pre-’66 FIA GT cars under 2700 cc, and following a season in that series that...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I...
The Vintage Sports Car Club’s new Formula Vintage series enjoyed a second triumphant outing on the weekend of June 10-11, despite the weather’s best efforts to disrupt the track action throughout the afternoon at Oulton Park on the Saturday. Following the great success of the Club’s inaugural Formula Vintage event...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By Peter Darley Peter Darley served as Team Lotus’ official photographer during the glory days of the ’60s and ’70s, and while his images may have enjoyed widespread dissemination in period,...
The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as...
The Jaguar Classic Challenge returns in 2017 with two brand-new events confirmed in the five-race series for pre-1966 Jaguars (Malcolm...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with impeccable racing pedigrees, or others that have an interesting history. This month, our profile of the 1977 LEC CRP1 F1 car is more about the determination of racing driver David...
I first watched Niki Lauda as he “learned his trade” in his days with March and BRM, before he won...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows” (1934). 3 Dave MacDonald drives a Shelby King Cobra to victory in the USRRC race at Augusta, Georgia (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
Pete Lyons THIS IS OLD news to you, but as I write, we mountain folk are still buzzing about February’s...
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the international historic motor racing event in its first two years. The Festival will take place over the Bank Holiday weekend, May 3-5, 2013. As noted in our November issue, the Festival will...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus Cars. In just nine short years, Colin Chapman’s designs had evolved from an Austin 7-based trials special with a plywood and alloy body, to a sophisticated spaceframe design in what...
Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50...
June 2011 Honoring Gardner Photo: Maureen Magee Dear Editor, As usual Vintage Racecar had the most comprehensive obituary of a British motorsport figure in the form of the late Derek Gardner. There are a couple of little points I would like to add to Mike Jiggle’s very good tribute. Tyrrell...
