If you’d caught just the end of the August 17, 1975 Shellsport F5000 race at England’s Thruxton circuit, you would have figured that Belgian driver Teddy Pilette basically walked away with the ...

There wasn't much science to F5000. Most of the early ones were modified F2 cars with stock-block 550-plus-horsepower, 5.0-liter V-8s, usually fuel-injected Chevys, bolted in the place where a 2.0 ...

Aged 79, period Thruxton F1, F5000, F2 and F3 racer Mike Wilds starred in Peter Venn’s ex-John Nicholson FA Lyncar 005. Sixth behind F3 standouts Murray Shepherd (ex-Mike Blanchet/Arie Luyendijk ...