Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby accomplished the feat 50 years ago this month, driving an Aston Martin DBR1 in company with Roy Salvadori. Shelby had begun racing back in his native Texas shortly after returning...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance racing’s Big Three signature events, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is also one of just two to...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
Bob McKee had chutzpah. He believed he could build racecars that were as good as anyone else’s and build them safer. Not only did he build racecars, he also built components like early transaxles, which many people in the early days of mid-engined racecars sought out from him. However, a...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
The French, two-time Can-Am champion and former Ferrari F1 driver speaks with Nasir Hameed about his early days, his time in in the Can-Am and F1 and his love for the American Rockies. Patrick Tambay Please tell us about your earliest racing memories? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His early childhood was unremarkable puctuated by frequent moving. He like other young boys was attracted to the exploits of Brutish sports figures including Jimmy Clark. After considerable success in kart racing,...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived a life dominated by motorsport. Whether going to pre-war races with his father, racing himself in F2 or leading the BRM race organization, Tim Parnell has played an integral role...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the names of Leo and Ian (aka Pete) Geoghegan became known thoughout almost every...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the British Racing Partnership. This month, Mike talks with Tony Robinson about the direction his career took, after Moss’s grisly crash at Goodwood in 1962, including his transition to designer with...
As a young mechanic Tony Robinson answered an ad for work with London’s Ray Martin Motors. Little did he know...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning two World Championships—with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt. Here, he shares with Keith Booker some of his recollections of those early days. How did you first become involved in motor...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a diverse racing career. Mike Jiggle sat down with the British Champion to learn more about his fascinating racing life. Looking at the records, I have read that you started in...
