1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager Mark Donohue talked of “the unfair advantage,” the way in which a driver with an engineering background was always one step ahead of his competitors. Having started off working with his father, Jack, on motorcycles and then becoming an apprentice at Vincent,...
1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a European...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. He cut his Grand Prix career short in 2010 to join Citroën, but could only turn in mediocre results, before returning in 2012 to what he...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Masters Historic Racing has released the schedule of events for its 2017 European racing season, beginning in Barcelona at the Montjuic Park circuit on the weekend of April 8-9, and concluding with the Estoril Classic Festival in Portugal on the weekend of October 21-22. In between the Masters Historic racers...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge in 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
I didn’t think it was a very good thing for a woman to drive those open and powerful cars of...
1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy (1958). 2 Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schutz lead a Porsche 908 1-2-3 finish in the Targa Florio road race in Sicily (1969). 4 F1 race winner and TV commentator John Marshall Watson, MBE, is...
Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks By Brian Redman with Jim Mullen It’s always good to see a new...
During 2016 the UK’s Historic Sports Car Club celebrates 50 years since it’s founding. Looked upon by many as “Mr....
It took a racing department of 240 people and a huge budget to put Michael Schumacher on top of the world and make him the third millennium’s first Formula One champion driver. A department bursting at the seams with people who receive little outside recognition of their efforts, while the...
Der Safety Wagen Dear Editor Just a note to say I enjoyed the article on the Herbert Linge Safety Wagon....
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
Aston’s Spectre Dear Editor, What a ripper read your leading article was in the December edition of Vintage Roadcar! In all my years of 007 movies and following the fortunes and otherwise of Aston Martin, I never imagined the marque was actually saved by James Bond, as you (perhaps tongue...
The poet Robert Browning wrote “how sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet.” In today’s...
The two-time British National Hillclimb Champion who also gave five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell his initial international opportunity to...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of 1962, arriving by train after a three-hour journey from London on an oven-like day in June. It all seemed like the poem Adlestrop, as nothing stirred. Little did I know...
Motor racing has always involved risk for the drivers, and sometimes for spectators too, as was seen to horrific effect...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African could become a Formula One World Champion. Not even their crystal ball, though, could have predicted how: it was when driving a Ferrari 312T4 at Monza, the holiest of holies...
