Woody WoodardPhoto: Yours Truly Photography Woody Woodard was employed as a mechanic by Roger Penske, and in so doing worked...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally dominate his life. This passion not only took him away from school and University study to follow a dream, but also from his family and his Italian home. Motor racing...
Photo: Mike Jiggle It is almost safe to say that a Maserati saved the Grand Prix career of a promising...
Jack BrabhamPhoto: Roger Dixon As a tribute to triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, the only man ever to win...
Tony Parella They say there is no greater zealot, than a recent convert. Though he came to the sport fairly recently in 2011, Corvette racer Tony Parella wasted no time in deeply immersing himself in the deep end of the sport. After selling his highly successful telecommunications company, Parella turned...
He is, after all, Mario Andretti, one of the most accomplished racing drivers of all time, the only man to...
Photo: John Zimmermann Before 1975, sanctioned automobile races through city streets in North America were rare, the only real example...
A well-known name in Australian motor sport circles, Brian Foley commenced racing during the 1950s behind the wheel of an Austin A30. He soon moved on to other BMC cars, including an A40 Farina, Lancer, Austin-Healey Sprite and the mighty Mini Cooper S, though the late 1960s and early ’70s...
Don Nichols Don Nichols is one of only three Americans ever to field a winning car in a World Championship...
Phil Garratt and Kieron BrownPhoto: Mike Jiggle Phil Garratt and Kieron Brown recently won their category in the gruelling 7,610-mile,...
Gail HillPhoto: Gail Hill Collection Gail Hill shares a surname synonymous with some of motor racing’s greatest and most successful drivers, Phil, Graham and Damon—all F1 World Champions. However, it was only in later life that motor racing became a focal point of her leisure time. Now she is a...
Over his years in racing, Eppie Wietzes drove everything on four wheels, from a Morris Minor with an Austin A40...
Brian Redman When last we left Brian Redman back in the August issue, he’d just returned from his first attempt...
Tony DeLorenzoPhoto: Courtesy of Tony DeLorenzo Tony DeLorenzo’s father, Anthony G., was a newspaperman, a reporter for UPI who then went to work for the Kudner Agency where one of the clients was GM’s Buick Division. There he was “discovered” and hired away by GM president Harlow Curtis. This ultimately...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Chris CordPhoto: Courtesy Chris Cord He may have been born into a family whose name was etched upon the American...
Roy PikePhoto: Pete Austin The special relationship between Great Britain and the USA is said to be strong in the political arena; it’s for sure stronger in motor racing terms. Many talented Americans have crossed the Atlantic to hone their talents in the UK’s racing scene over the years. Examples...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford and Atlantic, then won the Tasman Series down under before tackling British F3 during perhaps its best season ever. A single season of F1 peaked his career, before a Mexican...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor Mike Jiggle got him to discuss his early years at Lola and going to work at McLaren, as well as his basic design philosophy. In this second installment he speaks...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
For three short years, in the early 1960s, Christabel Carlisle, now Lady Watson, was the name on the lips of...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...
