Racing History

Our mechanic’s tale this week comes from a man who started work in the pitlane half a century ago – yes, half a century ago, and he’s still going strong,…

The haves and have-lots are playing high-stakes poker with the sport we love. Its soul long since sold, the devilment now lies in Formula 1’s financial detail: an apparent streamlining…

Photographer Chris Taylor drew our attention to this great video of the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, filmed by his late father Colin for Duckhams Oil. London to…

There’s little doubt in most of our minds, is there not, that the ‘60s produced the greatest generation of racing drivers we’ve ever had the pleasure to see in action.…

1973 Timo Mӓkinen/Henry Liddon, Ford Escort 1974 Timo Mӓkinen/Henry Liddon, Ford Escort 1975 Timo Mӓkinen/Henry Liddon, Ford Escort 1976 Roger Clark/Stuart Pegg, Ford Escort 1977 Bjӧrn Waldegård/Hans Thorszelius, Ford Escort…

There was a time when the Brazilian Grand Prix habitually featured as a beginning rather than an end and for a time was held in Rio rather than São Paulo.…

Alan Jones, Adrian Newey and Ross Brawn were once all under the same F1 roof. But the Carl Haas project — known as Beatrice Racing — failed horribly. Gordon Kirby looks back at the very first Haas F1 team

Hey, it’s not easy out there. That’s why there have been so many more losers than winners in Formula 1. Caterham and Marussia are far from being alone. More than 100…

On Wednesday of this week the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan will present Dan Gurney with the Edison-Ford Medal in recognition of “his ingenuity and innovative achievements in racing…

There are lies, damned lies and statistics, so the old saw goes. But there are fundamental truths in numbers, too. John Surtees won 38 of his 68 world championship motorcycle Grands…

Back in 1977 Patrick Tambay won the Can-Am championship with Carl Haas’s team, thus earning himself aFormula 1 ride with McLaren for the following year. Tambay drove for McLaren in 1978…

Formula Atlantic, Mallory Park, July 12 1981 In contemporary single-seater racing, you can drive almost any chassis you like… so long as it’s a Dallara, or perhaps a Tatuus. There…

It was never really in doubt was it? As soon as the pace of the Mercedes was there for all to see, winning the 2014 Constructors’ Championship was merely a…

Forty years ago – a time when running a World Championship Grand Prix in Russia was only marginally more likely than running one in, say, Azerbaijan – Formula 1 staged…

“He was like a little brother to me and I think he appreciated me looking out for him as a big brother too,” says Giacomelli. “We raced together for only…

Main image: 1909 winner Harry Grant. Courtesy of vanderbiltcupraces.com – The Howard Kroplick Collection This week marks the 110th anniversary of the first Vanderbilt Cup race on Long Island, New York. Through the…

“Can we talk later on this afternoon?” he says. “I’m a bit tied up right now, working on a friend’s Morris 1000 Traveller. Is that OK?” Surely a Morris Traveller…