Brooklands Museum, the home of British motor racing, is celebrating the life of one of the UK’s greatest racing drivers,...
The legendary Sir Stirling Moss, who passed away at Easter 2020, will be commemorated at Goodwood’s headline motorsport events in...
The Goodwood Motor Circuit will forever be associated with Sir Stirling Moss, and Goodwood’s one-time only event next month – SpeedWeek presented by Mastercard – will mark the passing of one of Britain’s greatest drivers with a race named in his honor. The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy will be presented...
Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and...
Sir Stirling Moss was not only a special friend of Vintage Road & Racecar, but for several years he was one...
The final lap has been run and the chequered flag has fallen on the life and time of a man who was unambiguously born to be a racing driver, indeed he was known the world over as ‘Mr Motor Racing’. To give him his proper title, Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss,...
It was a word-of-mouth, invitation-only affair organized by his lovely wife Susie and a friend without Stirling Moss knowing a...
Stirling Moss, in his Vanwall, during the 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree, on July 20. Moss retired the car...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of a new wave of industrial design. Avro Aviation engineer James C. Floyd had come up with the CF 105 Avro Arrow, a 1500-mph delta-winged fighter aircraft, and Bill Sadler had...
It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
The year 2015 marked the 60th anniversary of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson’s victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, racing...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
November 2017 Great Cars no: 10 – Lotus 18, The Autobiography of Stirling Moss’s ‘912’ by Ian Wagstaff In a little...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very much grassroots level, who championed the cause for a revival of motorsport immediately following the cessation of hostilities. Alec Francis Rivers-Fletcher, known simply as “Rivers,” who once worked under the...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that it will be offering a once-in-a-lifetime group of Aston Martins at its flagship Monterey auction...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 When speaking to Brian Lister, some years ago, I asked him about the secret of his success. Just how did those Lister cars become world-beaters and icons of the era? Modestly, he replied, “My belief, in those days, was simplicity being the art of good construction, although...
May 2017 During the Sussex Trophy Race at Goodwood, on April 7, 1958, Archie Scott Brown keeps the works Lister-Jaguar...
1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda President and CEO, is born (1936). 4 Piers Courage drives a McLaren-Ford to victory in the Tasman Cup Race at Langford (1968). 6...
February 2017 Bruce McLaren – From the Cockpit By Bruce McLaren Although in very recent years the domination of the...
Some people do; some people don’t. Some people enjoy it; some people don’t. Driving in the rain, that is. Apart...
1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, (1974). 2 Land Speed Record setter John Cobb is born in Esher, Surrey, England (1899). 4 Stirling Moss, driving an Aston Martin DBR2, wins the Governor’s Trophy...
1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first Formula One World Championship, in a McLaren-Mercedes...
Car Aficionado and Host of Discovery’s Wheeler Dealers The surroundings we grow up in can sometimes have a profound effect...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of my even being interested in the sport. As my mother one day said to me, “It’s not as if you’ll ever take part.” How wrong she was! From the glamor...
