Dr. J. Dudley Benjafield founded the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) in 1928 as a social club for British racing...
Champion rally driver Paddy Hopkirk MBE (above, Jakob Ebrey photo courtesy of BRDC) was elected president of the British Racing...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and was the father of my school friend. So, I think I knew Frank from when I was around 10 years old. To give him his proper title, it’s...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 When speaking to Brian Lister, some years ago, I asked him about the secret of his success. Just how did those Lister cars become world-beaters and icons of the era? Modestly, he replied, “My belief, in those days, was simplicity being the art of good construction, although...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
Vintage Racecar was immensely saddened to hear of the passing of “Gentleman” Jack Sears following a long fight with cancer. Jack was born into a farming family in Northampton. His love of cars came through his father Stanley’s interest and participation in motoring events. Jack first took part in the...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on that role has had...
My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I had to get into Grand Prix racing in the 1960s. The Cooper Car Company, so famous in Formula One in the late 1950s and early 1960s for changing the shape of racing by...
Whoosh-bang. That sort of gives an impression of Ross Brawn’s 2009 Formula One season. The year of the spectacularly successful,...
Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with a taste at a racing school like Jim...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in October. Rolt had served the maximum nine-year term for a director, including two three-year stints as Chairman. Grant is known within motor sport for his...
Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this year, which focusses on...
It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near Derby it wasn’t too...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC chairman Tom Purves said: “John is one of the most accomplished and versatile sportsmen of all time, winning seven motorcycle World Championships and then victory in the 1964 Formula One...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at Le Mans over 50 years ago, has died. It is little known, but due to a fact-finding visit to Maserati, initiated by John Wyer, he didn’t see his cars cross...
At its recent AGM, the British Racing Drivers Club unanimously elected Derek Warwick as its new president, replacing former F1...
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as...
Almost 60 years to the day since his grandparents attended the 1950 British Grand Prix (the inaugural F1 World Championship race), His Royal Highness Prince Andrew the Duke of York, KG, followed in their footsteps, formally opening a major new section of the Silverstone track that represents the first stage...
A brand-new series of historic races, for the Sir Stirling Moss Trophy, has been launched by Motor Racing Legends (MRL)....
The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a...
When you’re weighed down with a name like Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh, you’ve got to do something about it if you want to go motor racing, so this Siamese tongue twister became B. Bira. That was the pseudonym under which a small, doll-like grandson of King Mongkut, played by Yul...
It seems that we may have had the last Grand Prix at Silverstone. There was a time when I lived...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
