It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
1983 Tyrrell 012/01-Cosworth Since the inauguration of the modern Formula One World Championship in 1950, there have been many occasions...
1 Jeremy Dale, driving a Spice-Oldsmobile, wins the IMSA WSC race at Phoenix, Arizona, giving Oldsmobile the IMSA Manufacturers Championship (1994). 2 Ted Horn, driving a Horn-Offenhauser, wins the AAA Championship race on the dirt oval in Dallas, Texas (1947). 3 Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass drive a Rothmans Porsche...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car At the dying stages of the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley Stadium, BBC soccer commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme uttered words that would become a phrase forever synonymous with him. As striker Geoff Hurst walloped the ball goalward, Wolstenholme’s dulcet tones rang out those memorable words,...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
Historic aircraft and competition cars, classic road cars and military machines will converge on Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire for the...
John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on that role has had to make many difficult and radical decisions to secure the future of Silverstone Racing Circuit—The Home of British Motor Racing. Some may ask who is John Grant and how is...
• The Great South American Challenge, organized by H&H Classic Rallies, crossed the finishing line in Ushuaia—the world’s most southerly...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...
To anyone interested in automotive history, the late 1940s and early ‘50s was a fascinating period of time, especially in...
I was involved with the E-Type Jaguar right from its inception, initially as an employee under the wing of Lofty...
RAF National Service entrance examination papers, completed by Mike Hawthorn in the 1950s, were sold by COYS at the Autosport International Racing Car Show, Birmingham, for a staggering £7,351. The papers are concrete proof that Hawthorn, who was hounded by Fleet Street during the early 1950s for failing to serve...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived...
