Racing History

It’s become part of NASCAR legend that the fist fight between Cale Yarborough and the Allison brothers, Donnie and Bobby, after Cale and Donnie tangled in Turn 3 on the…

The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is a FWD/AWD LMP1-H racer that meets FIA WEC and ACO criteria and features a 3-litre TTV6 IC engine with DI, in conjunction with an…

Vintage Sports Car Club, Oulton Park, June 18 1977 At the time there were fears of perhaps terminal decline. Oulton Park, one of the world’s best inventions, had been sliced…

Jeff Gordon started racing in his native California when he was just a kid and moved east to Indiana with his father when he was a teenager to race midget…

Denis Jenkinson has been gone for nearly 20 years now, yet still there are times – many times – when something happens in the world of Formula 1, and I…

Every now and then a new driver arrives in F1 with a ‘buzz’ around him, the suggestion that he is something out of the ordinary. So it is with Max…

Forty years ago Penske Racing was getting ready to run its first full Formula 1 season. Roger Penske debuted his first F1 car, the PC1, at the end of 1974…

“Without a moment’s hesitation Jean-Pierre executed a perfect handbrake turn. In a great big Mercedes V8 saloon. In the wet. On a street of modest width. With cars parked either…

Alfa Romeo’s team of cherry-red Tipo 158s took the first three places in the inaugural round of the Formula 1 world championship at Silverstone on May 13, 1950, with Nino…

Among the pictures on my office walls are two of Tazio Nuvolari. I look across the room and there he is, rounding the Station Hairpin (now Loews) on his way…

I will never know why it took until the man was in his 95th year, but Jaguar’s legendary test driver is Norman Dewis no more, but Norman Dewis OBE. I…

Jean-Pierre Beltoise, winner of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix for BRM, has died aged 77. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Beltoise was an accomplished racer on two…

They’d said it would be over by Christmas. Yet by 1915 the vast Vickers ‘shed’, built in response to the spiralling mechanised demands of an already entrenched conflict, loomed over…

“I finally got going after a push and spent a dismal race in the middle of the pack… unable to think much save that Boxing Day was a crazy day…

When you think of the Lotus Grand Prix team, the ‘real one’, as us oldies like to call it, you think of some of the great race mechanics. These were…

Max Verstappen is a veteran. Having karted competitively since before he was five, and at an international level from the age of 12, he was a world champion by 15.…

British Open Single Seater Championship, Oulton Park, October 2 1976 Remember a time when single-seater racing cars used to develop interesting CVs, long after their original purpose had been fulfilled?…