Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
Wakefield Park, Australia November 27–28, 2004 The lovely 1965 Nalla Holden of Henry Walker.Photo: Steve Oom 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 removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
April 2005 The Lotus Book—Series 3 By William Taylor For almost 60 years, the Lotus name has been synonymous with...
Recognized as Australia’s first professional racing driver, David McKay died on Boxing Day, December 26, 2004. Starting out racing MGs during the mid-1950s, McKay soon realized that his income as a motoring writer did not support his sport. As early as 1958, he convinced Australian oil company Ampol of the...
A well-established fixture on the annual calendar each February, the Southern Festival of Speed covers four weekends on New Zealand’s...
1955 Austin-Healey 100S It was as black as the inside of a coalmine as we left the comfort of the...
One of the few awful things that we have to contend with in the historic racing world is the relentless loss of our heroes. Sadly, every year brings news of more legends whose stories and experiences will be lost to us forever. Here at VRJ, more often than not, the...
In 1984, Niki Lauda had a new teammate at McLaren—Alain Prost—who left Renault in a huff after barely missing out...
Karl Kling Jim Clark 1 Lloyd “Lucky” Casner drives a Ferrari Testa Rosa to victory in a race at Opa-Locka,...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
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March 2005 Jackie Stewart—World Championship—The Official DVD Biography The market is, and for years has been, full of videos —and more recently DVDs— on motor racing’s characters, but this is the first one produced by the son of the subject. Mark Stewart, son of Jackie and Helen and brother of Paul,...
Graham Hill Ronnie Peterson 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
In this guide we are going to cover the popular single-seater series of Formula B, Formula Atlantic and Formula Two. From 1964 to 1978, these racing categories and the flat-bottomed Formula cars manufactured to compete in them served as a stepping-stone to the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing, be it...
February 2005 Ferrari: A Champion’s View by Phil Hill It turns out that Phil Hill—America’s first world champion, three-time Le...
If you examine the incredible growth in participation and popularity of historic racing over the past couple of decades, one...
Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Murwillumbah, Australia September 18-19, 2004 The rather purposeful 1976 Chevy Monza of Steve Voight.Photo: Justin Ealand 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 removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance...
After a couple of laps of the Murwillumbah Showground, it’s out for a timed run through the streets of the town itself. Up a steep hill, pass a couple of houses, sharp right-hand turn and along a tree-lined avenue. With the trees behind there is a little open space with...
Lotus—The Early Years An in-depth look at the formative years of Lotus from 1951-1954. Peter Ross examines the men and...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at...
Shanghai’s gaudy new, $300-million supercircuit, home of the first-ever Grand Prix in China, has a truly distinctive first turn complex. It coils up tightly one way like a watch spring, then unwinds. It seems obvious to me it’s meant to look like the oriental yin and yang symbol. SpeedTV commentators...
