1 The CART Michigan 500 is won by Nigel Mansell driving a Newman Haas Lola T93/00-Ford /Cosworth (1993). 3 Jaguar...
This 30″ x 40″ image was in response to Nigel Mansell’s epic outside overtake of Gerhard Berger at the 1990...
As the calendar year moves into its second half, we come to what motor racing calls its “Silly Season,” when there arises lots of conjecture about who will drive for who in the next year or two. Actually, I think the silliest part of it is the name. Why “silly”?...
Now established at the ExCel Exhibition Centre in the heart of London’s Docklands, this year’s London Classic Car and Historic...
Since 1991 those involved in motor racing, be they competitor, engineer, manufacturer, organizer or enthusiast, have made an annual pilgrimage...
1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally Meskowski dies at the age of 64 (1980). 4 • Denny Hulme, driving a Brabham BT4, wins the first Tasman Series race, held at Levin, New Zealand...
Founder and Managing Director of KW Motorsports LTD Kieron Salter is the founder and Managing Director of KW Motorsport Ltd...
2 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). 3 Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche is named chairman of the Panzerkomission, which oversees development of armored vehicles for the German army (1939). 4 Cincinnati Speedway Company board track opens in Cincinnati,...
1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born in Japan (1947). 2 Briggs Cunningham, racer,...
The Crosslé Car Company, the world’s longest-standing constructor of customer racing cars, is celebrating the six decades since the late...
During the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch on October 6, 1985, Nigel Mansell leaves a shower of sparks from his Williams FW10-Honda as he passes the pits on his way to victory. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA.,...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered...
My favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers World Championship. I know he only won the one race with the car, the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon, but he beat people like Piquet driving a Brabham, who...
1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2 Pierre Veyron wins the voiturette race...
1 Belgian F1 and sports car racer Willy Mairesse is born (1928). 2 Ted Horn, driving a Horn-Offenhauser, wins the...
1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race at Skarpnack in Stockholm, Sweden (1968). 3 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). 4 Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass drive a Martini Porsche 935 to victory in...
1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus...
Here’s a site dedicated to chronicling the first 50 years of Formula Three racing. It covers the formula from its beginnings in 1950 as the 500-cc cars until the Dallaras became the de facto spec car in 2000. F3 has always been a training category where drivers with their sights...
In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early years with Lola and...
1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 First South Africa Grand...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. Never has a World Champion’s biography been more aptly entitled, however, than Damon’s From Zero to Hero....
1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies in Nice, France, at...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor Mike Jiggle got him to discuss his early years at Lola and going to work at McLaren, as well as his basic design philosophy. In this second installment he speaks...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale (1968). 3 Herb Thomas drives...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not have matched his talent or his promise. Like a number of young South Americans of his generation, Moreno realized that if he were to make a go of his racing...
