1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives a Matra MS5 to victory in the F3 race at Magny-Cours, France (1968). 2 –...
1983 Tyrrell 012/01-Cosworth Since the inauguration of the modern Formula One World Championship in 1950, there have been many occasions when the governing rules of competition have been stretched, or even broken, by entrants. From the mid to late 1960s, the advent of sponsorship offering pots of money to the...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville,...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 If there was a racing car that most of the great and the good of both professional and amateur motor racing have competed in it would have to be one form or another of the Lola T70—not only in the UK, but in all corners of...
British racing driver Sir John Henry Douglas Whitmore has passed away at the age of 79 in the aftermath of...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming the new Jim Clark. His rise to fame, however, came to a sudden—even if temporary—standstill after a horrendous 10-car, 150 mph Formula 3000 accident while driving Jordan Racing’s Reynard-Ford Cosworth...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra....
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand Prix racing in the 1970s, designs seldom seen today. Many look back on this car as a total failure, forgetting the early success it had in 1976, for Jody Scheckter...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly but don’t make it to the grid, and then they disappear. Thanks to historic racing and car collecting fever, however, a number have managed to rise from the ashes. VR...
On the whole, French racing drivers are quite friendly toward each other and generally there is a good rapport and...
For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in the UK and Europe the...
1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). 4 Piers Courage drives a McLaren-Ford to victory in the Tasman Cup Race at Langford (1968). 5 Ken Tyrrell,...
1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the...
1964 Lotus 30 Racing car enthusiasts, on the whole, treasure every innovative idea manufacturers have managed to conjure up. However,...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed a whole racing car must draw up a new mount for an F1 World Champion. Constructed clandestinely in an old woodshed, the machine proves so fast that it sets a...
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
On a bleak day in November 1983, I was at Silverstone. Ken Tyrrell had promised a test drive to the...
4 Count Agusta buys O.S.C.A. from the Maserati brothers (1963). 8 F1 and CART champion Nigel Mansell is born (1953). 10 After 16,000 km and exactly two months, the Italia of Prince Scipione Borghese, mechanic Ettore Guizzardi, and journalist Luigi Barzini arrives in Paris, France, to win the Paris-Peking race...
For decades, racing fans around the world have continually debated which country or teams had the best drivers and cars....
I first got acquainted with Jackie Stewart when I went to work as a mechanic for Ken Tyrrell in 1968,...
1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). 4 Count Agusta buys O.S.C.A. from the Maserati brothers (1963). 4 Sportscar racer John Fitch is born in Indianapolis,...
