Photo Gallery from the VSCC’s June 16–17 Brooklands Double Twelve event. Subscribers click here for more photos from the Brooklands...
1 • Dan Gurney, driving a Climax-powered Lotus 18, wins the USAC Road Racing Championship Formula Libre event at Hilltop...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I was interested in cars from an early age. Indeed, my father had a couple of garage dealerships, one with Ford and the other with BMC, or British Leyland as it...
La Leggenda di Bassano “Trofeo Giannino Marzotto,” a regularity race reserved exclusively for Sport-Barchetta cars produced until 1960, will take...
This painting depicts a cockpit study of the ex-Peter Collins Ferrari Dino 246S as seen at the Goodwood Revival meeting....
ExCel Centre, London, UK February 18-21 ...
Torino, Italy February 12-14...
Neville Hay is a great communicator and over many years has provided the commentary at race meetings, both at home...
A rather prickly young man from Rome, Luigi Musso had all the qualities of a great champion, but he was killed before he could become one. Enzo Ferrari himself likened this Italian diplomat’s son to two of the sport’s greats, Felice Nazzaro and Achille Varzi. In fact, Musso was a...
A shooting star is an astronomical phenomenon which appears suddenly in the night sky, burns brightly for a few seconds...
A special added feature of Silverstone’s April 21-21 VSCC Spring Start meeting will be a recreation of the historic Commander...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. At first, the main culprit...
Alleggerita By Tony Adriaensens, Patrick Dasse & Martin Übelher First published in 1993, Adriaensens’ Alleggerita became the definitive text for...
I suppose the first question one has to ask is how one defines greatness in a racing car. One of...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest. That was at Le Mans after the big crash when one of our cars was involved and the Mercedes board in Stuttgart decided to withdraw the other cars....
Was Alvin “Spike” Rhiando really Archibald Stansfeld Belaney? Well, the answer is no, but if you haven’t got anything else...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half...
I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony Brooks…but Dan Gurney was the best co-driver I ever had, along with Fangio. There was no question that he was a superb driver. I only did a very few races with him but have...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
5 Grand Prix and Le Mans winner Louis Rosier is born in Chapdes-Beaufort, France (1905). 6 English Formula One racer Peter Collins is born (1931). 7 Alex Ribeiro, F1 racer and medical car driver, is born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1948). 8 At Phoenix, Arizona, Alan Kulwicki, driving a Ford...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping...
August 2009 Man vs. Machine Dear Editor, With respect to Pete Lyons’s column, “Man? Or Machine?” [VR, March ’09], I get the feeling that Pete Lyons and I must share some similar DNA. For many years, I couldn’t understand why I had gradually lost interest in the current modern racing scene....
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
May 2009 Peter Collins: All About the Boy! By Ed McDonough Along with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins was one of the “Golden Boys” of British motor racing in the 1950s. The trio may have shared common interests and obsessions, but they were not necessarily alike otherwise. While...
2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several F1 teams, is born (1956). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British...
How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly called him? As a journeyman? Or as a true gentleman who all but won the Formula One World Championship for drivers? The latter, I believe, would be a fair entry...
