Australian racer Warwick Brown has had a racing career marked by extreme highs and lows. His career highlights are marked...
With the prospect of landing a man on the moon, the American public was captivated by all things “jet-powered” in...
Bob Bondurant’s racing career has had many diverse facets including stints in small-bore production cars, big bangers such as the Corvette and Cobra, Formula One and finally Can-Am where his active career as a driver came to a nearly tragic end at Watkins Glen. However, in typical Bondurant fashion, he...
Our European Editor, Ed McDonough, has had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
A new event in the British racing calendar took place in July 1973, the Avon Motor Tour of Britain. The...
Ian Walker has been in and around motor racing for over 50 years. He started as a competitor but was drawn to team management and ownership, and became one of the best known British privateers, along with that other Walker—Rob—for a long period of time. Like his namesake, he ran...
To have a successful career as a racer and then parlay that into a successful career as a team owner...
John Cordts is a quiet, modest man, which is likely the reason why many fans of the sport are not...
This month we speak with one of the great behind-the-scenes players in open wheel racing cars, Ron Tauranac. If the name doesn’t mean much to you, the cars certainly will. Ron Tauranac is the “T” in all the Brabham BT racing cars, as well as the first and last initials...
Last month, European Editor Ed McDonough spoke with Vic Elford about his first Formula One encounters, and his Ford and...
Our European editor, Ed McDonough, had the great fortune to spend the better part of a week with the great...
Peter Bryant’s colorful career spans nearly three decades of motorsport and includes time spent working in Formula One, sports car and Indy cars. However Bryant is perhaps best remembered for his time in the Can-Am, where he designed the famous Titanium Ti22 that proved tantalizingly fast in the early ’70s....
Lorina Boughton McLaughlin was the first woman to ever win the “Man of the Meeting” Award given regularly by BP...
Over the course of his life, Frank Gardner has been a boxer, a surfer and a motorcycle mechanic before moving...
Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are the founders of Cosworth, one of the longest surviving and most famous names in motorsport. Our Ed McDonough was able to sit down with both of them as they made plans for the 45th anniversary of Cosworth Engineering. VRJ: How did it all start?...
Sir Jackie Stewart’s career started in 1963, and though he no longer competes, there is no end in sight to...
Vic Edelbrock In the late 1930s, Vic Edelbrock Senior started up his automotive business in a small way, in a...
Back in the 1960s, if you raced or rallied an Austin Mini Cooper, you would have met and probably been defeated by Bill Brack. Bill started off ice racing his Mini and then purchased a Mini Cooper from Gord Brown who was a salesman at the British car dealership Ensign...
For a “round peg,” John Cooper Fitch fits remarkably “squarely” in the pigeonhole marked “True American Hero.” In his 85...
“Gentleman” racers Jack Sears and Peter Riley were BMC works drivers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Jack drove for the Works team from 1956 to 1959, while Peter joined the team in 1959. Both raced a variety of BMC machinery, both in rallies and road races, including a...
The Kremer Brothers, Erwin and Manfred, have been in the racecar preparation and construction business for nearly 40 years. Their...
Among the guests of honor at the recent opening of a new Motor Sports Gallery at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, England, were Tony Brooks and Jackie Oliver. VRJ reporter Steve Havelock asked them for a quick comment on the gallery, but this evolved into an interesting discussion about...
From humble beginnings behind the wheel of a MG TC, Frank Matich, over a 21-year period, rose to become a...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
Jim Stokes is a boyish-looking 49 and has spent the better part of his life among some of the finest racing machinery ever built. The Jim Stokes Workshops have had a following among the knowledgeable for some years, but have retained a rather low profile. This has begun to change...
Few racing personalities have been involved in as many capacities as Lew Spencer. From herding Cobras around Sebring to managing...
Paddy Hopkirk’s name is almost synonymous with the rise of the rallying Mini Cooper. His win in the Monte Carlo...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great Italian prewar racers: a gentleman driver every bit as professional as his main rivals, Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi. He, like his two more famous contemporaries, was a tough and...
