Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Joaquin Folch took victory in the sixth round of the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix World Championship at Donington Park on...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started my career, I was like any other driver. I started in single-seater racing cars and wanted to become a Formula One racer, not only that but World Champion! My ladder...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly...
Sir Jack Brabham was guest of honor at the Historic Sports Car Club’s race meeting at the pictureque Oulton Park...
When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the list of one of the most obscure names in Formula One. As a small boy, and into my teens, my bedroom walls were littered with pictures of the great Jo...
Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham’s youngest son, David, having won back the rights to the Brabham name in 2012,...
For decades, racing fans around the world have continually debated which country or teams had the best drivers and cars....
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about his career and motor racing in general. He was very helpful when VR’s European Editor asked him to contribute to his Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, and he was just...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
October 2009 Headed for his first Grand Prix victory, Nelson Piquet takes his Brabham BT49-Ford over the old “Linden Leap”...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting in any environment, but here, at Pau, in the Parc Beaumont, the noise bounced around between the Armco barrier and the park benches, but then was trapped under the trees...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. JCB, the British manufacturer...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor pal Mike Doodson, live before a throng of thousands. Nominally, “The Dood” was a journalist like me, and remains so today, but for a few seasons in the ’70s, he...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the Pau Grand Prix Formula 2...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the...
4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Gilles Villeneuve...
Famed racing car designer Ron Tauranac has passed away at the age of 95. Tauranac first came to fame in 1962 when he teamed up with World Champion Jack Brabham to create the later’s eponymous Formula One car, which would eventually win the World Championship in 1966 and 1967. Tauranac...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses around his home city of Coventry. Despite having good qualifications and being at the epicenter of the UK car industry, he was rejected first by Jaguar and then initially by Coventry Climax. Fortunately,...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in a car of your own design must have been overwhelming. For Bruce McLaren, the introduction of the Tasman Series, incorporating not only the New Zealand GP, but also the Australian...
