I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
Cedric SelzerPhoto: Mike Jiggle At the beginning of the 1963 season we had a choice, whether we wanted to work...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony Brooks…but Dan Gurney was the best co-driver I ever had, along with Fangio. There was no question that he was a superb driver. I only did a very few races...
My racing goes back to before the war when I was driving mainly Maseratis. In 1937, I did quite a...
My association with Team Lotus covered the period from October 1975 until May 1984. After the second season, and particularly...
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...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
I was born in Italy into a family that was involved in motor racing—both my father and my uncle were...
My interest in touring cars goes back to the ’60s when I watched the likes of Jim Clark in a Lotus Cortina. That was a fantastic spectacle you will never get again…that is, Schumacher in a touring car race on the same weekend as a Grand Prix, which is what...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
We had run the Datsun roadsters for a season and a half before we ran the 510 and won the...
I worked as the chief engineer at Lola (1969–1981) during one of their most productive and interesting periods. The number of fascinating incidents that happened during that period is endless. Not long after I joined Lola, at their factory in Slough, which must have been around 1970, we had a...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view...
It’s nice to be asked back! (Taylor was featured in an interview in VRJ in March 1999). Especially to talk...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin Toward the end of my first period with Shadow, things weren’t working out too well, money was getting tight and I couldn’t really get on with my job, as I wanted to. There were cutbacks here and there, and it made life difficult. There were lots...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a...
Tony RobinsonPhoto: Ian Wagstaff At the end of last year I lost a true friend, Ken Gregory. Ken was one...
On the whole, French racing drivers are quite friendly toward each other and generally there is a good rapport and camaraderie between us. I think this stems from the roots of our motor racing careers in France. Most, if not all, of us came through the motor racing school system...
The first time I recall sitting in a racing car was as a child at the BRM works at Bourne,...
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...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a previous racing program when David Hobbs drove for them. The BMW GTP project relied on input from McLaren North America, as it wasn’t something BMW’s headquarters in Munich got too...
My first visit to Donington Park motor racing circuit was as an 11 year old lad, with my father. It...
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...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake...
The rules were: One lap of Lime Rock, driving backwards from a standing start. You could bring any car, use...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula 3—a championship I stayed in for about four or five years. Formula Three was a good experience for me and my team, Euroracing. In 1977 we won the European F3...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic...
I actually started racing with the Nissan GTP team late in 1988, while I was still racing Indycars. I was...
VRJ caught up with the Belgian former GP and sports car driver at a Spa track day where Ickx was putting in many laps in a Ferrari 312PB–in fact the very car that he had raced in the 1970s and that we test drove back in January of this year....
