One of the problems in writing this profile is the temptation to indulge in a long list of Chris Amon...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
You’ll probably get stopped at some point and have to pay off the cops. You will almost certainly have to weld something at what would have been your lunch stop. Your kidneys will be bruised, you might get stuck in the sand, and by the time you make it to...
Really? How so, you may ask. While it’s hard to imagine today’s Williams Grand Prix car contributing a single iota...
Felice Nazzaro had brains as well as a heavy right foot and he used them well to work his way up from the shop floor to motor racing stardom in a career that spanned three decades. His favorite technique was to hang back and let the leaders burn themselves or...
Toward the end of my first period with Shadow, things weren’t working out too well, money was getting tight and...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just...
Among the journals to which I contribute is Rewind, a quarterly based in Singapore. Recently the editor, Eli Solomon, wrote a wonderful piece on Malaysian motor racing specials of the 1950s. Had you seen the pictures alone, you would have been hard-pressed to guess the country of origin, though the...
This painting shows the Talbot Lago driven by Louis Rosier being tended by a mechanic at the very first World...
During the Brands Hatch Six Hours on April 13, 1969, Chris Amon comes up to Druids, his lone Ferrari 312P...
“For nearly a half-century, wherever Americans powered their way to automobile glory, whether on the two-and-a-half-mile Speedway at Indianapolis, the short quarter-mile midget tracks or the dusty half-mile fairgrounds where sprint cars plied their fearsome trade, the name Offenhauser long meant the most dominant engine to power a racing car.”...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as...
1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands Hatch, England, driving a Copper-Climax (1955). 3 Brian Redman...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
Maybe I’ll change my mind by the end of the column, but as I tap out this opening sentence, I...
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Amelia Island, FL March 9–11, 2012...
Adelaide Parklands Circuit, Adelaide, South Australia March 1–4, 2012...
Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, UK February 24–26, 2012...
Palm Beach International Raceway, Jupiter, FL February 24–26, 2012...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK February 25, 2012...
Palm Beach International Raceway, Jupiter, FL February 19–20, 2012...
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA February 17–19, 2012...
Formula One – All the Races By Roger Smith This mighty 600 page-tome is the Formula One race version of Steve Small’s Grand Prix Who’s Who, where Small provides a cameo of each and every Grand Prix driver’s career, where Roger Smith does the same for each of the 858...
This site bills itself as “a celebration of motorsport,” and that just about says it all. Now in its fifth...
The 30th Anniversary Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, honoring MG as the featured marque, will take place July 13–22 on the...
The stars are beginning to align in preparation for the 2012 Donington Historic Festival on May 5–6, with early entrants including the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hours winner and ex-Formula One driver Jackie Oliver, who will share a 1961 250 GT SWB with Rohan Fernando in the Pre-’63 GT...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in...
Coppa Intereuropa organizer Jason Wright will shake up this year’s Monza meeting, scheduled for June 1–3, with a four-hour race...
A pair of events scheduled for later this year in England will celebrate the half century since Graham Hill became the first British driver to win the Formula One World Championship driving a British car. Planning is under way in BRM’s hometown of Bourne for a gala 50th Anniversary celebration...
