1957 Climax-powered Jomar You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add an American V-8, clothe it in...
He was known as “the Silver Fox,” “the Racing Grandfather,” and “Merle the Magician.” These nicknames might indicate a gentlemanly...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning two World Championships—with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt. Here, he shares with Keith Booker some of his recollections of those early days. How did you first become involved in motor...
Whether you work on your own cars or not, at some juncture in your life you inevitably have to pick...
His contemporaries called him the “Garibaldino,” a term they reserved for the best of their select band. Like Giuseppe Garibaldi,...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport, however, had always fascinated me as a child and I wanted to be involved in some way, shape or form. There were a series of races in South Africa that...
The Birdcage Maserati is kind of a long story. I don’t know if it was the greatest racecar, but there...
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy of Motor Sport. Many years later, I was chatting with James Weaver at Silverstone, who said, “Bloody Denis Jenkinson, it’s thanks to him I’m in my current mess.” In 1957,...
Opening in 1921, AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übungs-Straße) was devised by the AvD as a motorsport venue and test track for the...
The Woodcote Cup; Goodwood, September 27, 1952. Tires smoking, the two works B.R.M.’s shoot off at the start. Nearest the...
Turn One of Daytona’s Rolex 24 road course configuration is fast and hairy, because you’ve just spent a whole bunch of time flat-out from the Bus Stop chicane on the backside, through NASCAR 3 and 4, then across start/finish on the tri-oval. The road funnels down, getting narrower and narrower...
1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the World Endurance Championship race...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Pau, France May 26–27, 2007...
Le Mans, France June 21–22, 2007...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA June 1–3, 2007...
Brands Hatch, England May 27–28, 2007...
Virginia International Raceway, Danville, VA June 8–10, 2007...
September 2007 Graham Hill Scrapbook, 1929–1966 By Philip Porter Over the past couple of years, we’ve brought you reviews of Porter’s previous “Scrapbooks” devoted to the life of Sir Stirling Moss. Each of these has been a ravely reviewed inside look into various periods in Moss’s life. As good as...
As evidenced in VR’s recent two-part feature, the diminutive under-1-liter Italian sports car affectionately known as “Etceterini” encompasses a broad,...
After 16 years and more than eight million competitor kilometers, the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally has become an eagerly anticipated...
Skip Barber, President of Lime Rock Park, recently announced his plan for the future of the track. The objective is to guarantee that Lime Rock Park remains the premier race course in the Northeast; that the facility is significantly improved without losing any of its charm or character; and that...
On Sept 22–23, the countryside outside of Reims, France, will once again reverberate to the howls of a Mercedes W196,...
It is official: The Mille Miglia Storica now has new organizers. For the next five years, until 2012, the great...
Just over 50 years ago, in a support race for the 1957 New Zealand Grand Prix, British driver Ken Wharton was killed when his Ferrari 750 Monza crashed at the Ardmore airfield circuit. Although the car was very badly damaged, Ken Harris took it over and had a new body...
