Bruce Eglinton Passes On
News has come from the Mayo Clinic that American racecar driver and designer Bruce Eglinton has died at the age of 77. Eglinton competed in…
Browsing: 2013
Strictly Passive – 1992 Benetton-Ford B192-08
Benetton’s standing in F1 Like many of today’s Formula One teams, the Benetton outfit morphed from an existing team, Toleman, then itself became Renault and… Read More...
40 YEARS OF EUROPEAN WOMEN IN MOTORSPORT – An incomplete guide to European women in motorsport since the ’60s
Prior to the Second World War, simply driving a motor car in Europe was almost a noteworthy event, and thus motorsport involved a small percentage… Read More...
Gail Hill
Gail Hill shares a surname synonymous with some of motor racing’s greatest and most successful drivers, Phil, Graham and Damon—all F1 World Champions. However, it… Read More...
Weighty Issue
For the better part of the past 10 years, I’ve wanted to devote an issue of VR to the history of women in motorsport. Not… Read More...
Maria Teresa de Filippis
A woman competing in Formula 1 was unheard of in the ’40s and ’50s. If any went to the races at all, they generally decorated… Read More...
Befriending The Bear
In the late ’60s, a boyfriend introduced me to motor racing. Until then it had been all horseback riding and 4-H. The big thing then… Read More...
Ann Wisdom (Riley) – Austin-Healey 3000
I have many memories of competing in rallies across Europe, but one that really sticks in my mind is the Liege-Rome-Liege event of 1960. Sharing… Read More...
Women
Some years ago, I opined that there will never be a woman Formula One driver and then discovered that Lorina McLaughlin reads Vintage Racecar. The… Read More...
“The Roaring Beautiful”
As a follower of hyperrealism—a genre of art similar to photorealism—Henry has produced a high-definition body of work, as evidenced by this painting of a… Read More...
Fast Exposure: December 2013
Here is Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Gasometer turn, at the end of the main straight along the harbor, during practice for the 1959… Read More...