The fascinating life of Don Nichols heads our annual Christmas gift ideas for racers as Pete Lyons explores the man behind the Shadow race cars. Lyons, the dean of American motorsports writers who has been writing and taking photos for seven decades, befriended Nichols and got the whole story of...

ABOVE: Nichols (at right) with UOP Shadow's Alan Rees and designer Tony Southgate at the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix. Don Nichols, the American founder of the Shadow Racing team that rose to prominence in Formula 1 and Can-Am during the 1970s – especially with its black-liveried Universal Oil Products (UOP)-backed...

Above image by Pierre MunsonSummer is in full swing and this year hundreds of vintage racers will make the journey to Elkhart Lake, Wis. to celebrate the beauty and performance of some of the world's greatest racecars and sportscars, July 14-17 at Road America for the WeatherTech International Challenge with...

I'd planned to write this piece in the immediate aftermath of the Australian Grand Prix. Politics overtook it a fortnight ago, and still rumble on today, but if anything I'm rather glad all the bickering over qualifying stopped me from penning the article I originally had in mind. Because today,...

Alan Jones, the first man to win a Formula 1 world championship with the Williams team, received a Gregor Grant Award at the 2015 Autosport Awards. The Australian legend played a pivotal role in the rise of Frank Williams and Patrick Head's team, including a breakthrough title success in 1980...

Italian ex-Formula 1 driver Renzo Zorzi has died at the age of 68. He contested seven grands prix with the Williams and Shadow teams between 1975 and '77, taking a best result of sixth in Brazil in the last of those years.A long-time Pirelli employee and test driver, Zorzi made...

Veteran race mechanic Nigel Stepney has died. The 56-year-old Briton was involved in a road traffic accident in Kent, England in the early hours of Friday morning.A statement from the Kent Police said that investigations were underway as to the cause of the incident:"A silver VW caddy van, driven by...