Websites of racing History - Cars, Drivers, Tracks

FastDB2s · 27 Aug 2009, 10:39 (Ref:2529139)

useful source of research www.racingsportscars.com

FastDB2s · 27 Aug 2009, 10:58 (Ref:2529150)

also this site - in our case select British National History & year
http://wsrp.ic.cz/

PRDAracing · 27 Aug 2009, 11:55 (Ref:2529191)

How about a bit twisted look at racing history...?

http://www.prdaracing.com

FastDB2s · 27 Aug 2009, 19:07 (Ref:2529441)

Chicane F1 is a good source of F1 championship & non championship history
www.chicanef1.com

FastDB2s · 28 Aug 2009, 07:07 (Ref:2529699)

The National Racing Archive is also a good source for research, you email them with your request & if they find anything they charge a small fee - presumably it also relies on donations
www.motorracing-archive.com/
Like most of sites mentioned they also need accurate input to continually update their records

Motorsport have put their records on dvd - you can buy individual yearly records I believe, thier record list is getting bigger as they copy them
www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/dvd-archives/

Also another list of the best History sites on the web
www.forix.com/8w/mrh/index.html

FastDB2s · 28 Aug 2009, 08:22 (Ref:2529737)

Can't find a good site for Rally history - I don't suppose the UK & European local clubs supply historical details into a central database

**John Turner** · 28 Aug 2009, 09:40 (Ref:2529787)

Not to mention this forum - there is a search facility.

Plus our Driver Files, and our Chassis History Archive, which, is a research/discussion facility, hopefully making useful contributions to this excellent site:-

http://www.oldracingcars.com/

FastDB2s · 28 Aug 2009, 10:15 (Ref:2529805)

Thanks John - I forgot to mention that although the chassis history file I always assumed was for more elite famous cars (DB3S - DBR1 - BMW 3.0 Batmobiles, Jaguar C & D types, etc.) with proper history, now, if I could only find my ancient volumes of On Four Wheels as it mentions some really obscure drivers

Mike Bell · 28 Aug 2009, 13:27 (Ref:2529901)

Don't forget Frank de Jongs excellent source- http://www.touringcarracing.net/

**John Turner** · 20 Oct 2009, 08:13 (Ref:2565214)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FastDB2s

Thanks John - I forgot to mention that although the chassis history file I always assumed was for more elite famous cars (DB3S - DBR1 - BMW 3.0 Batmobiles, Jaguar C & D types, etc.) with proper history, now, if I could only find my ancient volumes of On Four Wheels as it mentions some really obscure drivers

Sorry, I didn't respond to this. No, it's for any car that has been raced; if you browse through the 11 or so pages of the archive you will see some fairly obscure machinery amongst the better known racing marques. On those, we tend to start the discussion here, but once developed with enough info, they get moved into the archive for continued development/additions etc.

FastDB2s · 28 Aug 2009, 17:32 (Ref:2530035)

great - now if I could just find a rally site like those - possibly Irish & Isle of Man, etc.
Are there any hillclimb & sprint archive sites of interest .

FastDB2s · 1 Sep 2009, 19:27 (Ref:2532680)

Another one - Historic racing in Wales www.sandspeedwales.co.uk/index2.html - more about bikes though but some of it is cars

FastDB2s · 19 Oct 2009, 20:15 (Ref:2564965)

www.silhouet.com/motorsport/
another good website for history

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