Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK February 25, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in...
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin “Spike” Rhiando really Archibald Stansfeld Belaney? Well, the answer is no, but if you haven’t got anything else to do for the next twelve hours you could find some good...
Terror Over Brussels Dear Editor, I must urge you to reconsider the excellent winter vegetable the “brussel sprout” and draw...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did not enter competition himself until age 23 after attending a racing school. Working his way up the ladder of the sport he eventually found himself racing both in Formula One...
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northants, UK October 22, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Starting his career in the early ’60s behind the wheel of a Mini, John Fitzpatrick quickly worked his way to...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK September 10, 2011 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...
Formula 3 was a superb training ground for many British drivers in the early 1950s. For this sunny International Daily...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
Silverstone was also the venue for a massive Jaguar E-Type birthday party. Highlight of the weekend for many was the sight of some 800 E-Types driving around the 3.6-mile Grand Prix circuit en masse in an attempt to set a new record for the Guinness Book of Records. There were...
The organizers of July’s Silverstone Classic are claiming to have brought together the biggest gathering of Grand Prix cars ever...
In 1951 Froilan Gonzalez raced to victory at Silverstone to win the British Grand Prix. It was the first Grand...
Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50 years of the E-Type Jaguar or, as some of you know it better, the XKE. It’s a bit unsettling to find myself being unphased by remembering things that happened 50...
A million clichés come to mind. Giant killer is probably the worst, pummelled to death by a thousand newspaper hacks,...
Rodger Ward Louis Chiron 1 Louis Chiron leads an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3 finish in the French Grand Prix at Montlhéry...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver, was an only child and had been influenced very much by my grandfather’s love of motoring. I remember one day my grandfather arrived driving a wonderful Ferrari 365 GT 2+2....
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, U.K. February 26, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
McLaren Cars celebrated 30 years of carbon fiber technology at Silverstone in March when a small group of journalists were...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: 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...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
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...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants/UK October 22, 2010 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 products....
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was given a brief by film manufacturer Agfa-Gevaert that most motor racing fans would have given their right arm to do. In short, he was asked to capture the atmosphere and...
