While 2020 marks Formula One’s milestone 70th anniversary, April has also featured an historic 70 years since Maserati not only...
Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One...
From an early age Robert Blakemore had a passion for pre-war racing cars, particularly Aston Martins. His father owned a MkII, and the young Blakemore would wile away hours just sitting in the driver’s seat imagining he was racing at some of the world’s famous circuits…being careful not to touch...
February 2018 The Crystal Palace Trophy, Crystal Palace, June 11, 1962. At the start, it’s Roy Salvadori on pole in...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that it will be offering a once-in-a-lifetime group of Aston Martins at its flagship Monterey auction...
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...
Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this year, which focusses on...
It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near Derby it wasn’t too...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar Championship-winning team of 1959, it seemed reasonable to speak with another racer who worked in that fabled John Wyer-run team, Rex Woodgate. Woodgate is a notoriously detail-oriented mechanic who became...
A number of years ago, in the early days of Vintage Racecar when I think we were still in “black...
One of the problems in writing this profile is the temptation to indulge in a long list of Chris Amon...
Was Alvin “Spike” Rhiando really Archibald Stansfeld Belaney? Well, the answer is no, but if you haven’t got anything else to do for the next twelve hours you could find some good entertainment by Googling both those names and taking a trip into fantasy land…it’s worth the trouble. Belaney turned...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
Lord March opened the gates of his estate to members of the media for the annual taster for Goodwood’s Festival...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth Where do you start? Society weddings, the jet set racing crowd, brewery heirs, Mangustas, Grand Prix disaster. The De Tomaso story has it all, and the car you see here embodies much of that tale. We can’t tell it all, but the Formula One 505 was...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
My racing Astons started in 1953, and although the first year brought some results, there wasn’t a win until 1955,...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a heart attack at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 31, 2009, four days short of his 72nd birthday. He had just spent the previous weekend participating in the Legends...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop for 50 years? Answer: two. Let me refine the question a bit. How many manufacturers of only racing cars have been going for 50 years and are still in international...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived...
There was never any doubt that Chris Amon was an exceptional talent. Mauro Forghieri, Ferrari’s chief designer for almost 20...
The Woodcote Cup; Goodwood, September 27, 1952. Tires smoking, the two works B.R.M.’s shoot off at the start. Nearest the camera is Reg Parnell, still watching the starter drop the flag while Froilan González on the other side also got a good start. Between them is Nino Farina in the...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had...
I guess the best period in motor racing for me was when I managed to have my first drives in...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
