The Earl of March has recently confirmed the theme of the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which is “Hawthorn to...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
Going into the new season, they looked to be in a strong position. Their car was the fastest in the field, they had two front-line drivers – one the reigning Champion and the other more than capable of winning races given the opportunity. What could possibly stop them continuing where...
The poet Robert Browning wrote “how sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet.” In today’s...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the grand unveiling of two high-end yachts from two well-known racing nameplates. In late September, Aston Martin debuted its 37-foot AM37 powerboat at the Monaco Yacht Show, while Mercedes-Benz made a...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon,...
Red Bull gives you wings” says the advertising strap line for the energy drink that funds not only the eponymous Formula One team but also, seemingly, virtually every other dangerous endeavor in the pantheon of world sport. However brilliant the aerodynamic properties of the Red Bull series of World Championship-winning...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, the sleepy market town streets of Bourne came alive to the sound of music, or to the noise of roaring racing engines on this occasion, to paraphrase the words of Oscar Hammerstein. The event was BRM Day, the 50th Anniversary celebration of...
I drove for Colin Chapman for about four years because I was a junior driver in the Lotus team, so...
Launched at the Earl’s Court Motor Show 50 years ago in October 1957, the Elite captured the attention of the international...
Illustrating Patrick Quinn’s article on the Bira MG K3 (VR December, 2009) was a photograph of Ron Uffindel, who frequently raced it. A theme of that issue was the return of the Lotus name to F1. I saw Uffindel’s name and bells rang. Australian motor racing often reflected the British...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). 4 The Gazetto dello Sport announces the first Mille Miglia road race (1926)....
2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run in Cortina d’Amprezzo, Italy....
1 Ernesto Maserati dies of natural causes (1975). 3 Indy car racer Rick Mears is born in Wichita, Kansas (1951)....
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago. This year at the Goodwood Festival I was back in the John Player Special Lotus 72 that I drove many times. Everytime I get in that car I go back...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
Lotus was the star of the 1957 London Motor Show, which was remarkable since prior to that Lotus only made...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula 1 World Championship (twice) and the CART title with a record in both—that reads like any self-respecting Walter Mitty’s wish list. He won 14 Grands Prix—not to mention non-title “oddments”...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
I was born with a competitive spirit, my father represented Great Britain at Speedway, my mother and two of my...
When you look at any listing of Lotus competition cars built from the first Lotus VI of 1952 through to the mid-1970s, you can observe a change in direction. Prior to the ’70s, any listing will show quite a number of models built, including those for the smaller capacity formulae....
