Motorsport Legends Speak
Interviews & Words With The Heroes of Motorsports
This is where the rubber meets the road, where the smell of burnt rubber and high-octane fuel mingles with the sharp insights of those who have lived and breathed motorsports. Here, the legends of racing take the wheel, sharing their firsthand experiences, hard-won wisdom, and unique perspectives in a collection of captivating articles and exclusive interviews.
The Driver's Seat: Insights from Motorsports Legends
This is where the rubber meets the road, where the smell of burnt rubber and high-octane fuel mingles with the sharp insights of those who have lived and breathed motorsports. Here, the legends of racing take the wheel, sharing their firsthand experiences, hard-won wisdom, and unique perspectives in a collection of captivating articles and exclusive interviews. Get ready to dive deep into the minds of champions as they dissect race strategy, reflect on career-defining moments, and offer a glimpse into the intense pressure and exhilaration of life at the limit. Hear from visionary engineers, team owners, motorsport executives, and influential figures who shape the sport from behind the scenes.
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put the Porsche name firmly in motor racing record books as a marque to be respected and feared. In 1970, together with Richard Attwood—some would say a most unlikely pairing—and from...
Throughout history, men have always competed to go faster, farther, and higher than others, and during the past century much of this has been done in motor cars. In early days no attention was paid to safety, with numerous fatalities meaning motor sport ranked second only to flying homemade aircraft...
Peter Bryant’s colorful career spans nearly three decades of motorsport and includes time spent working in Formula One, sports car and Indy cars. However Bryant is perhaps best remembered for his time in the Can-Am, where he designed the famous Titanium Ti22 that proved tantalizingly fast in the early ’70s....
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus circuit near Berlin. But by the end of 1936, he was the king of all he surveyed—the 1936 European Champion, with six Grand Prix victories to his credit. All scored...
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important leadership positions in the competition, research and development departments at Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia. He is a Commissioner of the CSAI in Italy, rep to the FIA, and continues...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take part in the motor racing revolution there that changed motor sport forever in the USA. The list of people and projects he worked with would fill a book. He initially...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
Tom Cantrell’s world revolves around excellence, and it seems he will go to any length to achieve perfection on, and off, the racetrack. The owner of a successful construction business in the Pacific Northwest and a collector of vintage cars, Tom has also built a formidable race team. With a...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in Britain, and certainly in 1968 I was aware of all the car importers and the future American manufacturers getting started in the class. By 1968, my career racing sports cars...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number of 11 French national motorcycle racing championships, in three years, by the time he was 28. After that, he made a profession out of being a champion of many forms...
John Cordts is a quiet, modest man, which is likely the reason why many fans of the sport are not familiar with this Canadian Hall of Fame driver. However, Cordts’ racing resume is impressive, including several decades racing everything from MGs and Corvettes to 65 starts in the Can-Am from...
The 2005 Walter Hayes Trophy meeting at Silverstone took me full circle back to Formula Ford, the formula I started my racing career in. I was working for (Sir) Frank Williams—he head-hunted me to join him as a mechanic—and I built my own Formula Ford car from a wrecked Formula...
In Mass’ last full year, 1991, he teamed with Jean-Louis Schlesser in this C11 for the Mercedes-Benz WSC team as they shared 7th in the championship. With no less than 32 World Championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports car racers of all...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to NASCAR, Gurney can also lay claim to a long and successful career as a team owner, car constructor and truly one of racing’s nicest and most approachable individuals. In this...
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...
Simon Moore Although consisting of only two books, the body of work credited to Simon Moore is both enormous and highly significant. Moore is the author of The Immortal 2.9, the definitive book about the 1935-’39 Alfa Romeo 8C2900, and the three volume set, The Legendary 2.3, which covers the...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and won it three times: in 1928, 1929 and 1930, driving his own beloved Bentley cars. A record that still stands today, despite many attempts to break it over the last...
Jack Brabham Biography Jack Brabham was a second generation Aussie who’s grandfather came from the Cockney area of East London. His father who owned a grocery store just outside of Sydney was a keen motorist who taught Brabham how to drive a car at the age of 12. At 15...
Bob Tullius “I have often categorized Mosport as the most exciting and challenging track of all,”says Bob Tullius. “In fact it is my personal favorite. Having won six out of the seven times that I raced there may have something to do with the affection for the place however!” In...
Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous road he travelled, involving much hard work, to reach stardom. The versatile speedman had a long an impressive racing career and besides being famous for his outstanding record at Indianapolis...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s won his first Trans-Am crown and been invited to compete in the International Race of Champions. Then came the downside, and his big leg-smashing GTP crash at Watkins Glen, where...
Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and hero Stirling Moss. As the director of Public Relations for Pirelli for many years, Robert worked with Moss on a variety of projects and came to know both Moss and...
When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the list of one of the most obscure names in Formula One. As a small boy, and into my teens, my bedroom walls were littered with pictures of the great Jo...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver, was an only child and had been influenced very much by my grandfather’s love of motoring. I remember one day my grandfather arrived driving a wonderful Ferrari 365 GT 2+2....
My father ran in the first NASCAR Cup race in 1949, when I was 11 years old, but I went along to spectate. When I was old enough, I became a racer too. Let me say though I was nearly 21 years old before I sat behind a wheel to...
Our European Editor, Ed McDonough, has had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula 1 car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
The story of the Marzotto brothers and their brief but mercurial motor racing careers was mostly about Giannino winning the Mille Miglia not once but twice, in both 1950 and 1953. Which put him up there with greats like Giuseppe Campari, who won the race in 1928 and 1929, Tazio...
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