Video: Historic Motorsport is Dangerous
Duncan Pittaway gets sideways in his 8.2 Litre GN Vitesse and it brutally spits him out onto the Oulton Park tarmac. Duncan thankfully only ended up with a sore head and a broken collarbone, but...
View ArticleGet Ready for Big Bad Sandown this November
This coming November the 9th to 11th the Victorian Historic Racing Register will let loose four hundred classic racing, sports and touring cars on Sandown International Raceway for three days of...
View ArticleGear: 2013 Motorsport Retro / Cahier Archive Classic Formula 1 Calendar
The 2013 Motorsport Retro /Cahier Archive Classic Formula 1 Calendar is now available from Octane Press. We’ve teamed up with the supremely talented Paul-Henri Cahier to produce a thirteen-month...
View ArticleVideo: Dirty Old Times
With a racing licence that he’s held for forty five years and a thousand or so races under his belt, Arne Wallerstedt is about as passionate and experienced a historic racer as it’s possible to...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: Trophées Historiques de Bourgogne 2012
This gallery from Felix Page captures the atmosphere of the Trophées Historiques de Bourgogne, held a few weeks ago over the 6th and 7th of October at Circuit Dijon-Prenois, wonderfully. Along the...
View ArticleAuction Review: 1958 Benelli 248cc Grand Prix Racing Motorcycle
A stunning example from Italy’s oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli, was the top seller of Bonhams’ recent Autumn Stafford sale. The 1958 Benelli 248cc Grand Prix Racing Motorcycle,...
View ArticlePhoto of the day: 1968 McLaren M6B
Black Beauty Photo of the day: 1968 McLaren M6B is a post from Motorsport Retro, bringing you classic motorsport, cars, motorcycles and gear every day. ...Photo of the day: 1968 McLaren M6B is a post...
View ArticleVideo: The story of Phil Hill and his love of racing photography
Phil Hill, the 1961 Formula One World Champion also happened to be a very keen photographer. In this video, his son, Derek Hill, explains the project to compile his father’s images and stories into a...
View ArticleVideo: Tiff Needell Tests the Lotus 49
Image: The Cahier Archive Designed for the 1967 Formula One season by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe and raced by greats like Jim Clark and Graham Hill, the Lotus 49 is an incredible machine. In...
View ArticleNot So Famous: The Original Beechey Holden Monaro
Norm Beechey’s original HK Monaro isn’t nearly as famous as his 1970 title winning car, nor is it a car that could be described as hugely successful, but it is definitely significant in the history...
View ArticleVideo: India’s Formula 1 Racing history
“They just raced anything, anywhere, on airfields all over the country.” India may be a very recent addition to the Formula One spectacle, but it has a rich motorsport heritage full of brave,...
View ArticleFor Sale: 1954 Lancia D24
Reconstructed in the 1980s with the support of Lancia and Pininfarina and built by Luciano Basso, the Lancia Museum’s official restorer, and Guido Rosani, this Lancia D24 is one of just four and is up...
View ArticleVideo: Vintage Motocross with Jamie and Wes on RideApart
I like the enthusiasm Jamie and Wes have for motorcycling, you can see they genuinely love riding. In this latest episode of RideApart the guys go VMX racing on big, gnarly old two-stroke big bore...
View ArticleIllustrations: Freehand technical drawings by Peter Hutton
Check out these lovely illustrations by Peter Hutton. I found them over at Megadeluxe.com where Hutton explained how he does it. “The drawings are not cut aways as in a technical drawing, all they...
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Retro Gear: 8380 Laboratories’ Can-Am ’73 Unbesiegt
“If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power.” The CanAm series was home for the wildest of...
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Video: The 2012 Goodwood Revival In Super8
Alex King shot this incredible, period inspired, Goodwood Revival video on a Super 8 film camera, complete with newsreel style voiceover. As a good friend of mine says….. FEVER! Video: The 2012...
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Photo Gallery and Report: The Vintage Sportscar Club Autumn Sprint Goodwood
If you had turned up at Goodwood Circuit, in West Sussex UK, on the 27th of October, you might of thought that is was a museum car race outing on the classic old circuit. But this is the annual visit...
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Video: Against All Odds Datsun 510 BRE Racing
“I try to go as fast as I can and be smooth, and if I have to get a little unsmooth occasionally I’m perfectly willing to do that.” In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the Trans American Challenge Series...
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Video: Adrian Newey drives Leyton House March and 2009 Red Bull RB6
Red Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey recently had the unique opportunity to get behind the wheel of two F1 cars, born twenty years apart. Both the 1990 Leyton House March and 2012...
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Huge Field of Historic Racers Set for Tasman Revival Feature
We’ve reached the point where we can count the number of sleeps until the 2012 Tasman Revival on our fingers, and the Sunday feature events are looking brilliant. The event kicks off on Friday the...
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