Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and...
Lloyd Ruby hailed from Wichita Falls, Texas, up in the north central part of the state, not far from the...
When he competed in his first Formula One race, Eddie Cheever was even more baby-faced than when I got to know him, which is saying something. It was the 1978 South African Grand Prix and Eddie, who looked about 16 at the time, had actually just turned 20. He qualified...
It was a word-of-mouth, invitation-only affair organized by his lovely wife Susie and a friend without Stirling Moss knowing a...
I have admired Tazio Nuvolari all my life and so has just about every other motor racing enthusiast of my...
Tucked away in a little potato-farming town, 250 miles south east of Buenos Aires, is one of the most important motor racing museums in the world, a tribute to the little town of Balcarce from the man whose life story it tells. It is the Centro Tecnologico-Cultural y Museo del...
He was a spectacular Formula 1 driver and the first Polish addition to the F1 circus, who had it all...
Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who...
He is literally the fastest man on the planet, and has been since October 15, 1997. That was when Andy Green set the current World Land Speed Record of an average 766.035 mph taking him to Mach 1.02, which also made him the world’s first supersonic car driver. And he...
Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are...
The last time a car featured in my Heroes column was months back, when I wrote about the 1935 Alfa...
Bugatti had won the Targa Florio three consecutive years from 1925 – 1927 by the time their new recruit, Albert Divo, was flagged away from the Cerda start of the 1928 Sicilian classic. And he didn’t disappoint: Divo not only won the island epic that year, he made it two...
Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One...
Giuseppe Campari discovered 17-year-old Giulio Ramponi in 1919, when the youngster was working as a trainee for a Milan fuel...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning...
One of the most intriguing post-war American automotive tales has largely been forgotten. It was a car story that began...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill or Dan Gurney, heroes of the ’60s. But it was, in fact, much earlier than that. The first was David Bruce-Brown, a strikingly handsome young New Yorker and son of...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man...
The only time I ever met Eddie Cheever was one weekend when we were at the Hockenheim circuit, in Germany,...
One of the remarkable things about Juan Manuel Fangio is that he only competed in 51 Grands Prix, yet won five Formula One World Championships. Another is that he won 24 of those 51 GPs—almost half of them from pole position—a success rate of 47 percent. People still say Fangio...
You might well ask “Who the hell’s he?” when you read the name at the top of the page. Well,...
I have a Minichamps model of the legendary Lancia Stratos HF rally car in Alitalia’s green and white colors sitting...
Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874, but he rose to become a dominator of world motor sport. Yet he died in poverty, in 1947, at the age of 73, bankrupt, swamped by mountainous debts and destitute....
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The others won eight Formula One World Championships between them, but even with 11 GP victories to his credit, Felipe hasn’t made it yet. He almost did in a 2008 mind...
They say that, from 1933, not a single racing engine left the Ferrari factory without Luigi Bazzi designing it or...
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...
