I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I...
We raced the car with the V-12 for the first time at Brands Hatch, at the Race of Champions.I remember...
Contrary to what many may believe, the first time I drove a Porsche 917 was when I first sat in one to qualify for the 1969 Le Mans 24 Hours. There were three 917s entered for the race: the privately owned John Woolfe car, the Rolf Stommelen/Kurt Ahrens car, and...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry Titus (1928-1970) drove to victory for Ford and Shelby. Ford was tied up at the end of the series with Dodge, and as a result Shelby built this special, one-off...
I think you might call me accident prone. I had the Miller 4WD car that Dean Butler has now, and...
John WatsonPhoto: Mike Jiggle To many, although it may have seemed so, my first Grand Prix win at the Österreichring,...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing at Silverstone, and there was something about it that somehow encapsulated the excitement of motor racing and what it could be about. Peter SutcliffePhoto: Mike Jiggle Upon leaving school I...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the...
Carol Spears In the late ’60s, a boyfriend introduced me to motor racing. Until then it had been all horseback riding and 4-H. The big thing then was the Can-Am, so we went to the l967 race at Laguna Seca and sat outside Turn 9. When the relationship ended, I...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers...
It’s nice to be asked back! (Taylor was featured in an interview in VRJ in March 1999). Especially to talk about the old days and the people I found so interesting. I always considered that I was lucky to have been close to some of the real characters of the...
In 1994, I became Technical Director for RML Ltd., which was competing in the RAC British Touring Car Championship. John...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
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 early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and...
Nate JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann I first got involved with the Long Beach Grand Prix after a phone call from my friend John Queen, who said, “Hey Nate, my son Jack has met this Englishman here in Long Beach who thinks we ought to have a Grand Prix like Monaco going...
My racing started during the spring of 1962 at the Goodwood racing circuit, I was racing a Lotus Elite. I...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his Shadow race team, my brief was not only to design a Formula One challenger, but also to work on a new sports racing Can-Am car, the DN2. Shadow had competed...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver,...
The first Chaparral, the front-engine car, wasn’t my design, that was done by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. They came...
I drove for Colin Chapman for about four years because I was a junior driver in the Lotus team, so apart from driving Formula two with Graham Hill, the opportunity came in the beginning of the ’68 season to replace Jimmy. The thing I did for Lotus, of course, was...
In 1963, three Willment-run cars were taken to South Africa for the South African season—a Lotus Cortina, a Ford Galaxie...
My racing goes back to before the war when I was driving mainly Maseratis. In 1937, I did quite a...
In modern Formula One terms, the young driver Max Verstappen is creating a storm in the motor racing press due to his tender years and being at the forefront of Grand Prix racing—I believe he has just turned 19-years old. It reminded me of my dad, known to many simply...
