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Moments In Motorsport (38): Alfa Romeo T33/2 – BOAC 500 1968

Moments In Motorsport (38): Alfa Romeo T33/2 – BOAC 500 1968

Alfa Romeo took the decision to return to motor sport when, in 1963, it made Auto-Delta, an independent competition division, its official race preparation...
Moments In Motorsport (28): BOAC 500 1969

Moments In Motorsport (28): BOAC 500 1969

The sports car endurance races of the 1960s and most of the 1970s saw some memorable battles waged between iconic cars and skillful drivers,...
Moments In Motorsport (25): Ford GT40 BOAC International 500

Moments In Motorsport (25): Ford GT40 BOAC International 500

The entry list for the 1969 BOAC 500 World Sportscar Championship race saw four Ford GT40s enter the six-hour event. The photograph shows GT40...
Moments In Motorsport (24): Brian Redman - Jo Siffert - BOAC 500

Moments In Motorsport (24): Brian Redman – Jo Siffert – BOAC 500

As the 1960s drew to a close, motorsport fans and spectators were being treated to some memorable races and even more remarkable cars (a...

Memories Of The BOAC 500

In the late 1960s and early 1970s anyone with an appreciation of motorsport made the journey to the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent where...
The Motorsport Scrapbook (4)

The Motorsport Scrapbook (4)

In 1969 Lotus entered its new mid-engine 2-litre Type 62 sports car in the BOAC 500 world championship race at Brands Hatch. The car,...
The Motorsport Scrapbook (2)

The Motorsport Scrapbook (2)

My first experience of international motor racing was the BOAC 500 sports car six-hour endurance race held at Brands Hatch in 1967. Although I...

Moments In Motorsport (39): Chris Amon – Team Ensign

Chris Amon was born into a wealthy sheep farming family in New Zealand and went on to become on the most highly regarded race...
Moments In Motorsport (32): Chevron B16 - Brian Robinson

Moments In Motorsport (32): Chevron B16 – Brian Robinson

One of the most famous and recognised names in motorsport is that of Chevron cars despite the company’s tragically brief history (although it later...

Moments In Motorsport (30): Pedro Rodriguez – Porsche 917K

As with any form of sport, every once in a while an exceptional talent will emerge and their skill and contribution will be recalled...
Moments In Motorsport (27): Rover 2000 V8 – Roy Pierpoint

Moments In Motorsport (27): Rover 2000 V8 – Roy Pierpoint

One of the more remarkable and unexpected racing saloons of the late 1960s was a race-prepared Rover which was based on the P6 2000...

Moments In Motorsport (23): Andretti – Schenken – Peterson – Regazzoni

Motorsport enthusiasts are often accused of wishing that nothing would change in the world of automobile racing and that the sport was always somehow...