Our European Editor, Ed McDonough, has had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
Vintage Racecar Features
The Qvale Sebring MGBs By 1959, the MG Car Company was looking to update the somewhat dated and underpowered MGA...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that very nearly cost him his life, is about to go out and win his first race, only to discover his car is missing! With his racecar missing, Gurney confronts his...
A new event in the British racing calendar took place in July 1973, the Avon Motor Tour of Britain. The...
1959 Old Yeller Mk II As with so many of the great racecars and specials of the ’50s, the success...
FORMULA ONE & TWO AT REIMS, 1958 | It could never happen now. Ian Burgess was a works Cooper driver but he had to borrow Cyril Atkins’ Cooper T-43 for the race. His steady drive saw him break away from Taylor/McLaren and finish 4th. Photo: Ed McDonough In the 1950s...
Ian Walker has been in and around motor racing for over 50 years. He started as a competitor but was...
The resume is impressive—college graduate in physics, aeronautical research engineer, licensed pilot and instructor, NASA Astronaut candidate, but there is more. Now add SCCA sports car competition, the Daytona 24 Hour and Sebring 12 Hour sports car races, IMSA-Firehawk Series, and North Atlantic Road Racing Champion. No, we’re not finished...
To have a successful career as a racer and then parlay that into a successful career as a team owner...
Ex-Coppa Florio 1907 Wolsit Factory Racer A little-known aspect of the history of the British Wolseley firm was its Italian...
The 12-Hours of Sebring remains the oldest established sports car endurance race to be held in the United States, although with a partly glorious, somewhat patchy history. Always a popular spring break destination, Sebring enjoyed an oftentimes “wild” party atmosphere in the ‘70s-sometimes on a par with Watkins Glen’s infamous...
John Cordts is a quiet, modest man, which is likely the reason why many fans of the sport are not...
1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would Greco is the president of Nissan Italia, and for five sun-filled days, he and Nissan Italia’s general manager, Alessandro Cacciotti, guided the Datsun 240Z rally car round the coast of...
Known more for his mercurial temper than his victories over the likes of Carraciola and Nuvolari, prewar Italian driving star...
This month we speak with one of the great behind-the-scenes players in open wheel racing cars, Ron Tauranac. If the...
The Grand Prix Alfa Romeo: Alfetta 158/159 Alfa Romeo Alfetta 158/159. Photo: Peter Collins As a long-term Alfa “person,” I have never had any problems when it comes to the inevitable discussion of the best Alfa Romeo of all time or, for that matter, the Alfa one would most like...
Hollywood actors play them—Luigi Fagioli was one. Built like Rocky Marciano with wide shoulders, muscular arms, thick neck and a...
Last month, European Editor Ed McDonough spoke with Vic Elford about his first Formula One encounters, and his Ford and...
1962 Lotus 22 Photo: Casey Annis Although current CART drivers Adrian Fernandez and Michel Jourdain might want to argue with this premise, there have not been many motor racing stars to come out of Mexico. In the wider world, only Ricardo and Pedro Rodriguez have a significant reputation and that...
I always look forward to seeing the monthly “Market Guide” in “Vintage Racecar Journal.” Not that it gives me some...
Our European editor, Ed McDonough, had the great fortune to spend the better part of a week with the great...
1956 Ferrari 500 TR Prototype I have to confess that we sometimes get very carried away by some of the machinery we get to examine and test. We even have some degree of conflict about not being able to more frequently feature more down-to-earth and historic cars. It’s not that...
A firsthand look at the inner workings Of Ferrari by race team manager Romolo Tavoni, as told to Chris Nixon...
Peter Bryant’s colorful career spans nearly three decades of motorsport and includes time spent working in Formula One, sports car...
1984 Lancia LC2 Twenty years ago, when Group C sports car racing was in its heyday, the focus of attention was on the moment. As a result there weren’t many people thinking about Group C machines becoming “historic.” When Group C faded, many of us thought we would never see...
In Part 1, we took a look at the beginnings of the Huffaker legend, with the ferocious Formula Juniors and...
Lorina Boughton McLaughlin was the first woman to ever win the “Man of the Meeting” Award given regularly by BP...
1958 Devin D Porsche Across the southern hills of the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, north of a line drawn between Schio, Marostica and Bassano del Grappa, lie some of Europe’s most beautiful and challenging roads…long and fast sweeps coming down from 3,000 meters, medium speed twists across alpine meadows, and...
