The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
Motor racing has always involved risk for the drivers, and sometimes for spectators too, as was seen to horrific effect...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned how, from a relatively modest background and upbringing in Northern Ireland, Grant rose to the high echelons of command at Ford both in Europe and the USA and how he...
It’s often said that one of the best aspects of historic racing is the people you meet. Having been around...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as medical officer for the Royal Air Force in Changi, Singapore, to start at the beginning of the summer. But there was a problem; I had an obsession for motor racing....
Beating Peter Gethin for the European Formula 5000 champion-ship was something really special. I had a great car and tremendous...
After a very successful year in 1935, Prince Chula Chakrabongse, who financed Prince Birabongse’s racing, decided that they should strengthen...
To recognize the respect with which drivers would approach racing through the Masta Kink on the old Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix circuit, Alex Wakefield created this oil on canvas painting of Brian Redman showing full commitment and no hesitation as he clips the Kink’s guardrail-marked apex with his factory Ferrari 312PB in...
Morgans were regularly used in England before World War II in Rallies, Trials and Speed Tests. This is a Morgan...
Can you imagine two cars chained together, nose to nose, engines thundering on the infield of the 1930 Indianapolis 500?...
Harsh Truth Dear Editor, It is a given that retired race drivers have a propensity for telling fish stories. The late Dick Guldstrand was not immune from this, as his tribute interview in the latest issue (November 2015) demonstrates. In it he makes the statement: “Did really well in the...
1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky Ickx is born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 4 Graeme Lawrence...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA October 3-4, 2015...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA September 25-27, 2015...
Brands Hatch, Northants, UK September 26-27, 2015...
Linas-Montlhéry Autodrome, Montlhéry, France September 26-27, 2015...
Virginia International Raceway, Alton, VA September 24-27, 2015...
Wakefield Park, Goulburn, Australia September 19-20, 2015...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The story is a familiar one. After Henry Ford II’s attempt to buy Ferrari is rebuffed, he vows to defeat the Italians at Le Mans, creates a bold new car that...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
The fifth global gathering of Porschephiles, Rennsport Reunion V, took place before a record crowd of some 57,531 under sunny...
The Burlwood Motorsport Club has announced that it will organize the first annual Brack Classic Hillclimb at Inglis Falls in Owen Sound, Ontario, on September 17, 2016. The event, to be run in cooperation with the Grey-Sauble Conservation Authority, the Municipality of Georgian Bluffs and the Cobble Beach Concours d’Elegance,...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association crowned its 2015 champions at its season finale, part of SVRA’s U.S. Vintage Racing National...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the...
Historic aircraft and competition cars, classic road cars and military machines will converge on Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire for the weekend of July 2nd and 3rd, 2016, when Flywheel returns to the UK’s best-preserved Second World War bomber station. Showcasing the best in aviation, motorsport, motoring and military history in...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association staged its 3rd annual Vintage Racing National Championships the first weekend in November at Circuit...
• The proposal by the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association to hold a race meeting in conjunction with the Amelia Island...
It was early 1977 and I was having a beer in the Riverside International Raceway’s media hovel with Robert E. “Pete” Petersen, head of the Petersen publishing empire. On the track, Richard Petty was leading the NASCAR Winston Cup 200 miler. I said, “Pete, how about motorsports on TV …...
