In 2007 I attended the Press Day prior to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. You can be a passenger in...
Every so often you encounter an image which stops you in your tracks. For me it was a photograph of Geronimo. Yup, that Geronimo – not John Wayne’s best buddy. The photo was taken in 1906, Geronimo had become a farmer and he was at the wheel of his Model-T....
Whatever the 2010 Formula One season holds in the way of drama, scandal, and controversy, there will be one point of genuine interest, and that is whether Michael Schumacher can still cut it. Schumacher is the ideal yardstick. He retired on top of his game and there was no driver...
Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but...
I have just watched “The Italian Job,” the 1969 original. At the time of writing, the remake has not hit Britain, but it makes the movie topical. When the remake was first mooted, the retro Beetle was pencilled in to take the starring role originally created by the Mini Cooper....
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
I was at a race meeting when a hunter/gatherer homed in on me, he had a race program in one...
Mike Lawrence One of the delights of Vintage Racecar is reading the small ads and being reminded of the sheer diversity of historic racing. You have the big names, of course, but there are the lesser-known makes like Bolwell, Elden and Huffaker—to pick three from a recent issue. None of...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
There was something missing from the recent Olympics—motor sport. I can think of no good reason why, when we have synchronized swimming, the Franklin Mint of sport. The Arts were included in the Grecian Olympics, but the competitors had a shared cultural perspective. In 12 BC, King Herod sponsored the...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the...
I am considering registering my stomach as a trademark. Why not? Damon Hill has registered his eyes as a trademark...
Mike Lawrence One of the anniversaries celebrated at the 2014 Goodwood Revival Meeting was 50 years since Jackie Stewart won his first single-seater race, at Goodwood. Goodwood’s airfield manager, Robin McKay, had seen Jackie race (for Ecurie Ecosse) and he convinced Ken Tyrrell to give him a trial. Ken arrived...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
It has become a given that a driver’s main rival is his teammate and I have been pondering when this idea emerged. There have been instances of teammates being very close friends and the late Chris Nixon celebrated the bond between Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins in his superb book,...
Aston Martin has announced a collaboration with revived motorcycle company, Brough Superior, to make the AMB001, a limited edition track-only...
We celebrate Ferrari in this issue [Click here to see Ferrari Special Issue], but how much is Ferrari’s success due...
As I write this column in late April, the mass media is full of stories about Ayrton Senna. I must...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first to bear the title and we still have a French Grand Prix, therefore it must be the world’s oldest race, right? I disagree and nominate the Indianapolis 500. The 500...
Motorsport magazine, which I had the privilege to edit in the mid-1980s, recently ran a piece which claimed that 1976...
