Ten years have passed since the Earl of March set out to revive the glory days of motor racing at...
The Masters Racing Series traditionally starts the season with two track days at Goodwood, and in 2009 they will continue...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing accomplishments, the complex nature of the man, and the fact that he was an underrated driver. Phil died of respiratory complications due to Parkinson’s disease on August 28, 2008. He...
It is with sadness that we report the loss of British Le Mans–winner, Peter Jopp. Jopp began racing in the...
The Jaguar XK series made its first public debut at the 1948 London Motor Show in the shape of the...
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The Hon. John Dawson-Damer’s collection of historic Lotus racing cars, considered by some to be one of the most significant...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed, held July 11–13, has grown every year since its inception in 1993 and now stands...
The 2008 Goodwood Revival came to a close over the weekend, as 124,000 visitors enjoyed the unique atmosphere over three days of exciting racing and wonderful nostalgia, taking visitors back to the 40s, 50s and 60s and the romance of motor racing as it used to be....
An epic Whitsun Trophy provided a suitably dramatic dénouement to the 2008 Goodwood Revival race card. At the start, former...
The 25-minute Sussex Trophy race for sports cars raced between 1955 and 1960 witnessed a bewildering number of lead changes....
Ludovic Lindsay led from start-to-finish to record his third victory in the Goodwood Trophy. Pole sitter Mark Gillies stalled his ERA as the flag dropped and had to be pushed clear, with Lindsay storming off the line to lead from friend and rival David Morris....
The 2008 Earl of March Trophy race fell to Cooper driver Simon Frost. This 20-minute encounter for 500cc Formula 3...
The Glover Trophy race for 1.5-litre Grand Prix cars provided typically close racing. James King got to Magwick first from...
Denny Hulme was one of the most reserved men in motor racing. He seldom showed his emotions, which he camouflaged with a likable but sometimes gruff personality. Hulme never regarded himself a star, even if that were the case, and often went unrecognized in the most public of places, among...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the...
Selecting the overall victor at the annual Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’ automotive design competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed is never an easy task. However, at this year’s event, held on the sweeping Cartier Lawn at Goodwood House over the weekend of July 11-13, the judges duty of crowning the...
Audi Tradition is marking this year’s Festival of Speed at Goodwood, England, held July 11th – 13th, with a world...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In America, particularly by the late fifties, we had more racetracks and more cars because we were a bigger country. Americans had more money but had no home-grown production sports cars—with...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
The International Jaguar XK Club has announced that this summer’s XK 60 celebrations will feature one of the finest displays of Ecurie Ecosse cars ever gathered. Organizers of the event, which takes place at historic Goodwood Circuit and Cowdray Park, August 8–10, 2008, have already confirmed a number of significant...
Peter Collins Sir Stirling Moss 2 Stirling Moss drives a Maserati 250F to victory in the Glover Trophy Race at...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old....
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden anniversary of the Formula Junior. Special Formula Junior races will be held in New Zealand (January, Pukekoe); Australia (February, Philip Island); Italy (June 6–8, Monza); Britain (June 28–29, Brands Hatch...
The Earl of March has recently confirmed the theme of the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which is “Hawthorn to...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
Regardless of where in the world you live—or whether you follow the financial markets—you’d be hard-pressed to not be familiar with the recent implosion of the American sub-prime lending market. The repercussions have sent a shudder through the worldwide financial community and have caused pundits and fund managers to start...