By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
This month’s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own...
Spencer Martin first came to prominence in Australia when racing a variety of cars, including his early model Holden sedan. His performances led to an invitation to join the Scuderia Veloce racing team, which was, at that time, the most professional outfit in the sport. While known for his victories...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports...
Phillip Island, Australia March 19–21, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Streets of Albany, Western Australia, Australia June 6, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
October 2010 2010 Lotus Evora Let’s face it, historically to be a Lotus road car owner you needed to suffer for your art. Lotus road cars always yielded pretty uncompromising performance, but that performance invariably came at the cost of comfort, or day-to-day driveability, or even build quality. In short,...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
Tom Walkinshaw began his racing career as just another youngster trying to find ways to indulge his passions, and by the time he stepped away he had amassed a number of championship titles for himself and his corporate partners, including Jaguar’s last two victories at Le Mans and their pair...
In honor of its 75th anniversary this year, we’ve partnered with Jaguar to bring you this special issue commemorating the...
Le Mans 1957 represented the high water mark for Jaguar’s iconic D-Type. Handicapped by the reduction of engine size to 3-liters...
September 2010 DUNEDIN STREET RACE Dear Editor, It has been a few years now since the last running of the Dunedin Street Race and many of you will be wondering about the future of the event. Unfortunately the requirement to upgrade safety significantly resulted in the last event incurring a significant...
John Fitch Bob Tullius 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
There can be no doubt about the focus of this site as it’s all right there in the url. Aimed at lovers of Jaguar automobiles, it offers various linkages that will take visitors to a raft of relevant sections where any information they seek about Jaguars can likely be found....
Australia is preparing to present its finest public display of classic cars ever when it stages Motorclassica, the Australian International...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the non-championship F2 race at Falkenberg in Halland, Sweden (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Mallala Motorsports Park, South Australia April 3–4, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
August 2010 Formula III Racing In North America By Harry Reynolds This is the book a small band of believers has been grousing about for years, a scholarly history of a squirrelly subject: the wonderfully wacky world of cantankerous little 500-cc formula racing cars. Author Reynolds provides the definitive North...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
Illustrating Patrick Quinn’s article on the Bira MG K3 (VR December, 2009) was a photograph of Ron Uffindel, who frequently...
July 2010 Tastes Like Crow Dear Editor, How’s tricks? Mucho kudos to you and your VRJ family for continuously publishing a great magazine. 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...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158...
Formula Ford was a racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its tanks still first-lap full, was simply what one does when action must be instantaneous. He says he didn’t even think about it. Yet the rescue will forever define this American...
