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Retro Motorsport Art: Joel Clark
Motorsport demands tremendous artistry. Some of it makes the cars go faster – the design of the aero, chassis, or running gear. Some of it pays for the cars to go faster, attracts people to events and...
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Shannons Revives Touring Car Passion at the Australian Grand Prix
The Aussie Grand Prix has always been a celebration of motorsport and its wonderful, boistrous history and it’s off to a great start for 2012, letting the legendary machines of Group A and Group C...
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Up For Auction: Drendel Family Porsche Collection
The world’s most glorious private collection of turbocharged Porsches is going up for auction at Gooding & Company’s upcoming Amelia Island auction on the 9th of March. The auction will include...
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Video: ‘Circuit’ by Shell
One of my favourite things about being in Melbourne over the Formula One weekend is walking around the city streets to the soundtrack of howling Formula One motors bouncing off the buildings. It’s...
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Formula 1: Strike one. South Africa, 1982
The drivers were unified, for once, All fighting against tiny clauses in their Superlicence contracts. It sparked a remarkable weekend Formula 1 drivers are very much focused individuals. So it’s hard...
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Video: 2012 Le Mans 24 hour promo – A trip down memory lane
There is just something very special about Le Mans. Video: 2012 Le Mans 24 hour promo – A trip down memory lane is a post from Motorsport Retro, bringing you classic motorsport, cars, motorcycles...
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Video: Tyrrell P34 Climbs Goodwood
Martin Stretton dances absolutely fearlessly with the barriers as he tears up Goodwood’s hill in this video from the 2010 Festival of Speed. Stretton went fastest on both days and thrilled the crowd...
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Stepping stones to F1: Mika Hakkinen and Allan McNish
The route used to be simple: Karting, Formula Ford, F3, F3000 and F1. Easy huh? You would think, but then along came another feeder series in 1988, EFDA (the European Formula Drivers’ Association)...
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Renault: Powering Formula 1 Champions
With pre-season testing for the 2012 Formula 1 season already underway – teams spent four days at former Spanish GP venue Jerez last week – all eyes are on the latest creations from the 12 competing...
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Race Programs: 70s and 80s Motocross
Check out these old Motocross and Supercross programs from the 70s and 80s. The collection includes a program from the first ever supercross event in the USA ” The Superbowl of Motocross ” which was...
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Silver Arrows to Star at Goodwood Revival
600bhp is really rather a lot, even today – just three years out from hover skateboards. In the middle of the 1930s it was absolutely bonkers. And yet, resting under the shapely bare metal bonnets of...
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For Sale: 1965 Lola T70 MkI
If you were a privateer in the ’60s and early ’70s and wanted to compete with the beasts from Porsche, Ford and Ferrari, Lola’s T70 was the car to do it in. The T70s are just as fantastic today. This...
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For Sale: 1972 Ducati 750SS Imola Replica
A few days before the 1972 Imola 200, Paul Smart met the Ducati 750 for the first time for a test at Modena. He broke then World Champion Giacomo Agostini‘s lap record within his first 20 laps, on...
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Video: A Master Class With Stirling Moss and a 1959 Cooper-Climax
“If I was really, a bit younger, a bit more gutsy, a bit bigger balls I probably would’ve kept it flat there.” Enjoy this immensely entertaining driving lesson with Sir Stirling Moss as he winds up a...
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10 of the best from Autopics: Allan Moffat
Allan Moffat is one of the true legends of Australian motor racing. He has won everything there is to win, in a huge variety of machinery. The Canadian born driver took four wins in the Australian...
View ArticleInterview: David Coulthard
David Coulthard had a 15-year Grand Prix career with Williams, McLaren and Red Bull Racing, and is now a commentator for BBC TV’s F1 coverage that is shown worldwide. The Scot won 13 Grands Prix...
View ArticleLongford Revival Festival back bigger and better in 2012
The Longford Revival Festival will be back on March 24 and 25, and organisers are promising an even bigger and better event than when it made its highly successful appearance on the calendar last...
View ArticleVideo: Fangio and Brabham Race at Sandown
“I will not demonstrate it, I will race it.” Fangio and Brabham stop Sandown in its tracks in this captivating support race for the 1978 Australian Grand Prix. The pair took to the track – Fangio in...
View ArticleVideo: Brundle Drives the 1986 Lotus 98T
“Senna driving it and putting it on pole all the time. The whole package came as a successful, fantastic looking package out of the ‘80s where, maybe it was the most spectacular time ever in ...Video:...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: The Most Beautiful Formula One Cars
1991 Jordan 191 driven by Andrea de Cesaris at Monaco We’d like to take your mind off the naff noses of the recently unveiled 2012 Formula One cars, so we asked around the office and, with the...
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