I was really surprised when I learned that there was going to be an historic race on the same circuit...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
For me, to think of the important moments in motor racing means to think of the people I knew and had some good times with…and to think of the races. Sometimes these memories are both good and bad, happy and sad. I remember the days in Argentina at the Temporada...
It’s nice to be asked back! (Taylor was featured in an interview in VRJ in March 1999). Especially to talk...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come...
Zora Arkus-Duntov was a tremendous influence in my life, both personally and professionally. We shared so much, and he was such an influence early on, in the late ’50s, that he’s really the main reason that I got so involved with Corvettes. He led me into things that I never...
Takuma Sato On the very rare occasion of two current Grand Prix drivers having their first taste of historic motor...
VRJ caught up with the Belgian former GP and sports car driver at a Spa track day where Ickx was...
I think I would point to three big moments in my past career, in addition to what I am doing now in team management in the FIA GT Championship. The first was when I won the European Championship in Formula 2. The next moment wasn’t my first win in Formula...
I think you might call me accident prone. I had the Miller 4WD car that Dean Butler has now, and...
One of the races I remember well from my career was winning the 24-Hours at Spa in 1968. I drove the Porsche 911 to 1st overall, and it was a beautiful race for me although it had the usual Spa weather with rain for more than 18 hours. I was...
I raced at Le Man, 13 times, and each time it was a good one. It was especially good when...
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important...
At the end of the ’60s, American manufacturers placed a lot of emphasis on the “Pony Car” market. As a result, everyone wanted to win the Trans-Am championship. By 1969, all the major American manufacturers had thrown their weight into the Trans-Am – Ford, Chevrolet, Pontiac, American Motors, and Chrysler...
I drove for Colin Chapman for about four years because I was a junior driver in the Lotus team, so...
I was involved in racing in a very interesting time, when a lot of good things happened and a lot...
You know, I had the experience of working with some great teams and on some “interesting” projects. For example, I was in the Ligier team when they had the Alfa Romeo engine, and that was a very difficult period. The problem was that Alfa had a lot of people who...
My involveent with Ford goes back a long way and includes some of their most interesting racing projects. Before I...
There are so many, what I would call, “Tyrrell moments” in my life. It was a very gradual process. You...
Peter Westbury The first circuit I ever went to was Brands Hatch, in the ’50s, when I was still at school. That must have been 1953, when the circuit was one mile and went the other way around! I was hooked at an early age. My father had taught me...
It was a very difficult decision at the time to go to Audi, which seems strange now. But then I...
The first Chaparral, the front-engine car, wasn’t my design, that was done by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. They came...
Parnelli Jones By 1973, we had a great Indy car team and had won 53 Indy car races. As a result, Firestone, who was a major sponsor for us, wanted us to enter Formula One with Mario Andretti as our driver. So we went over to England and hired Maurice...
My first good job after college was designing suspension bits for Traction-Master Co. Later in 1968, I became a small...
Back in the early 1950s I was racing my own Cooper 500 fairly successfully. I managed to beat the works...
I remember the 1968 Oulton Park Gold Cup Race very well because it was my first Formula 1 drive, and Oulton Park was a circuit I knew very well from previous years in F3. We went there, and I qualified on the third row, next to Oliver in the Lotus...
I guess I have done most types of motorsport at one time or another…trials, sprints, rallies, hill-climbs and races. I...
My racing goes back to before the war when I was driving mainly Maseratis. In 1937, I did quite a...
In 1963, three Willment-run cars were taken to South Africa for the South African season—a Lotus Cortina, a Ford Galaxie and the Cobra GT I am running at the Goodwood Revival in 2004! There were several drivers and we used to just switch drivers and switch races. I drew the...
