I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
October 2016 • Dan Gurney is this year’s recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his role in founding All American Racers and subsequently building Eagle racing cars for more than 30 years. Gurney was honored at a Can-Am Tribute dinner during the Rolex Monterey Motorsport...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
When taking a first look at the subject car for a Profile feature the first thing that comes to mind...
South Africa has a rich motor racing history, and during the 1930s a number of International Grands Prix were held at major centers around the country. Whitney Straight won the first South African Grand Prix in 1934, and later visitors included the Auto Union team with such greats as Bernd...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
Like his uncle Gianni Agnelli, Ludovico Scarfiotti was a suave, well-mannered gentleman who was no stranger to the privileges of...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a previous racing program when David Hobbs drove for them. The BMW GTP project relied on input from McLaren North America, as it wasn’t something BMW’s headquarters in Munich got too...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
Sex, infidelity, theft, intrigue, a lightly raced car, a tragic airplane crash and a pack of lifelong friends…some famous, some...
Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69: Volume 2 By Paul Parker Thankfully, renown motor racing photographer Paul Parker has found a new publisher to continue his “In Camera” series, since Haynes no longer publish books of that type. It is a relief to know we’re not being deprived of another peek...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
Few would argue with the notion that Tazio Nuvolari was one of the five greatest racing drivers of all time;...
I began racing at age 18 in 1962, on TT motorcycles with my brother-in-law, Don Kratofil, and a friend, Tim Shaw, both of whom were truck drivers working with me at my first trucking company, Safeway Delivery. The delivery service had a six-day-a-week schedule so there were some Sundays to...
My favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982...
2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). 3 George...
Bugatti type 57 Grand Prix – A Celebration By Neil Max Tomlinson To dispel myths and legends of any subject is a very tall order. As a writer and researcher you stand alone with your head above a parapet just waiting to be shot down once your findings are published....
• Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has announced that American racing legend Bobby Rahal has entered the second annual Classic 24...
Recently, I was contacted by a chap in New Jersey who labored under the impression that I know much more...
I got a Brabham in 1967 and it was supplied by the Russell Racing Organisation, which was like a driving school. They bought a bunch of Brabhams, with one for me that cost like half as much, and I ran their name on the side, as long as it was...
1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2 Pierre Veyron wins the voiturette race...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Here is a question to ponder: when was there last welding equipment in a Formula One pitlane, or that of any top category? After Innes Ireland drove his Lotus 16 around the bumps of the Monza banking in 1959, no fewer than 40 cracks were found in the spaceframe. Off...
Our rest had been interrupted by teens partying in the motel, in Syracuse on Friday night, but Saturday dawned bright...
At the end of last year, I moved from Chichester to Oxford or, to put it in terms even the...
Artist Bernard Reeves was inspired to paint this image by a 1930s poster for a shipping line because he was impressed by the graphics of the ship, and he is also a Jaguar enthusiast. Based in Herefordshire, England, Bernard specializes in oil and gouache paintings. His portfolio includes classic, sports and Formula...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an...
For me, motors and motoring were in my blood and my genes. After the first World War, my father had...
The loss of John Crosslé at the end of August 2014 completes the passing of a remarkable generation in motorsport. John had much in common with the contemporaries and friends who founded Lola, Mallock, Chevron and other icons of what many consider a golden age. Eric Broadley, Arthur Mallock and...
