I had seen this well-used Lotus 18 sitting in a grumpy little foreign car repair shop hard along Ventura Blvd....
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3...
I made my first visit to the Silverstone circuit in the 1960s. It was just a mission of curiosity at first but I was soon bitten hard by the racing bug, and club racing was my staple diet for the first few years. I was particularly involved with the embryonic...
Peter Westbury The first circuit I ever went to was Brands Hatch, in the ’50s, when I was still at...
I was involved in racing in a very interesting time, when a lot of good things happened and a lot...
When Peter Gregg did his deal to race BMWs in IMSA in 1976, he asked me to take over in the Brumos Porsche. At the end of the season, Peter decided he wanted to come back to Porsche to run the Trans-Am, and my Brumos deal went South. He hooked...
My fourth win at Indy was the best for a lot of reasons. The first will always have its place...
Bev BondPhoto: Pete Austin I was born with a competitive spirit, my father represented Great Britain at Speedway, my mother...
When Ferrari decided to withdraw from the sports car championship for 1974, there were a lot of drivers on the market and Carlo Chiti acted to get some of them for Autodelta and Alfa Romeo. I was signed along with Mario Andretti and Carlos Reutemann. Rolf Stommelen and Andrea DeAdamich...
VRJ caught up with the Belgian former GP and sports car driver at a Spa track day where Ickx was...
Nate JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann I first got involved with the Long Beach Grand Prix after a phone call from my...
Nigel Bennett The UK branch of Firestone Racing Division was formed because the U.S. factory had been supplying racing tires to Ferrari and Lotus in Formula One, as well as some sports car teams and private owners in Europe, and obviously the cost of shipping large quantities of tires to...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
The 1970 World Cup Rally (WCR) has gone down in history as the longest and toughest rally ever. Criss-crossing Europe...
I actually started racing with the Nissan GTP team late in 1988, while I was still racing Indycars. I was brought in to support Geoff Braham’s championship effort, and met them in Phoenix for a test at Firebird. My first race was the street race in Columbus, Ohio, and I...
Photo: Bob Jackson In 1962, I was Jim Hall’s mechanic. There are many stories I could tell about the five years...
My interest in touring cars goes back to the ’60s when I watched the likes of Jim Clark in a...
Before the Tasman Cup was introduced in 1964, most of us were using Climax engines, 2-liter, 2.2-liter or 2.5-liter, but there were a couple of odd cars. I was also racing little Elfins but, for my Lotus 19B, I had taken my Climax engine out to 2.6-liter with pistons made...
Dr. Stephen E. OlveyPhoto: Dan R. Boyd USA LAT Photographic I met Alex Zanardi back in the late ’90s when...
My involveent with Ford goes back a long way and includes some of their most interesting racing projects. Before I did the cars for Le Mans, Ford was big enough to allow me to build two lightweight GT40s to see if we should run 4.7- or 7-liter engines at Le...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
I first raced at Monaco in 1955, a famous year for the Grand Prix, when Ascari went into the water....
My racing started during the spring of 1962 at the Goodwood racing circuit, I was racing a Lotus Elite. I went on to drive an Elan and then a Ferrari 250LM with Peter Clarke. It was in the Ferrari that I did my first Daytona 24 Hours. I shared the...
The first Chaparral, the front-engine car, wasn’t my design, that was done by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. They came...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
My story of winning the 1981 Macau Grand Prix actually began two weeks before, when I first raced the Hayashi 220P-Toyota at Suzuka, Japan. I had never seen the car before and really never heard of Hayashi, a wholesale wheel manufacturer. My involvement came through Vern Fotheringham who was their...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
My involve-ment with Audi came directly from my work, as a supplier to Audi, with exhaust systems and catalytic converters....
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
