While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
British Formula One fans will get a double helping of the sport’s top category at this year’s British GP, as...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one...
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...
Two new venues and a return to popular historic festivals give shape to Masters Historic Racing’s European calendar for 2018, as it takes its core championships to eight events, with all five of its categories being represented at the prestigious Silverstone Classic for the first time. The first venue on...
The only time I ever met Eddie Cheever was one weekend when we were at the Hockenheim circuit, in Germany,...
Champion rally driver Paddy Hopkirk MBE (above, Jakob Ebrey photo courtesy of BRDC) was elected president of the British Racing...
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...
Silverstone, Northants, UK July 28-30, 2017 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the team during the beginning, middle and end of the marque’s history in Grand Prix motor racing. The first of these interviews is with Richard “Dick” Salmon, now in his 92nd...
In last week’s item about the Bentley Drivers Club’s August 5 outing at Silverstone, we apparently misinterpreted the results and...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s popular annual race meeting — an institution on the British motor-racing calendar – once again produced...
Ayrton Senna started 13th on the grid and thrived in the wet conditions, making it all the way up to 2nd place by lap 19. As the rain began to fall more heavily, he was reeling in leader Alain Prost by three seconds per lap. The race was stopped at...
Luigi Chinetti Briggs Cunningham Photo: courtesy Art Evans 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula One car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
Two-liter sports racing 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. There was even a European...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a small boy, aged about five or six years old. How this was to become a reality was beyond dreams, I was the son of a Lutterworth farmer and far removed...
Silverstone, Northants, UK October 15-16, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
This painting depicts a cockpit study of the ex-Peter Collins Ferrari Dino 246S as seen at the Goodwood Revival meeting. It is produced using watercolor and gouache, the original is available double mounted and framed in a dark wood frame. Giclee prints are also available of the image taken from...
