John Surtees Biography The eldest of three children, John was born on February 11, 1934 in Tatsfield, England. His father...
Driver Profiles
Profiles of past and present automotive personalities. The drivers who risked their lives in the early days to the engineers who creatively changed the world of automobiles, this is a celebration of the people who played a major role in the world we love.
City-to-City Race Car Drivers The great city-to-city races were the origin of motor-racing. Attempts had been made to organize an...
Alan Mann, who died on March 21, 2012 at the age of 75, was a highly successful motor racing team...
By Art Evans | Photos as credited On the morning of April 18, 2012, I received a call that Andy...
By Art Evans | Photos as credited All of us have lost one of the dominant figures of the post-WWII...
British motor racing driver and manager Roy Francesco Salvadori passed away Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 at the age of 90....
By Dennis Gray | Photos as credited Bob Bondurant has done a few things. The winner of a world championship...
By Art Evans | Photographs as credited Frank Arciero was one of that small group that included John von Neumann,...
Italian automotive designer Sergio Pininfarina passed away Monday, July 2nd, 2012 at the age of 85. Sergio Pininfarina was born...
By Michael T. Lynch Martin Swig died on July 3rd after suffering a stroke. He leaves a legacy as one...
Pietro Bordino Biography Bordino was born in Turin, November 22, 1887. The son of a Fiat caretaker he would spend...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
American motorsports journalist Christopher “Chris” Constantine Economaki passed away Friday, September 28th, 2012 at the age of 91. Economaki served...
By Art Evans When you say “Moss” to motorsports aficionados, the name, “Stirling,” or “Sir Stirling” comes to mind. But...
Sports Car Digest continues the series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive of Bob Harmeyer. The first installment...
By Art Evans John Fitch and I were close friends for more than 50 years. We played together, sailed together,...
Leon Thery Biography Léon Théry was born in 1879. Having started out as a mechanic it was said that his...
Bernd Rosemeyer Biography On the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn, just beyond the Langen-Morfelden crossing and set back amongst the trees stands a...
By Louis Galanos On Monday, January 7th, 2013, Daytona racing legend George S. Waltman of Honesdale, Pennsylvania passed away at...
Legendary racing driver Hans Herrmann celebrates his 85th birthday on 23 February 2013. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, the endurance and...
By Michelle Cabatingan My love of cars and wanting to race them began at a young age of nine years...
Franco Gozzi, a key part of the history of Ferrari, passed away April 23rd, 2013 at the age of 81....
Jackie Stewart Biography Jackie Stewart’s early involvement with cars was in the family business, Dumbuck Garage, in Dumbarton, Scotland, where he...
No other name sums up the relationship between Ferrari and Canada better than that of Gilles Villeneuve. He never won...
Argentine racing driver Jose Froilan Gonzalez passed away June 15th, 2013 at the age of ninety in his native Buenos...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family...
Ettore Bugatti Biography Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti though his family was French was born in Milan on 15 September 1881. He...
Gilles Villeneuve Biography “He’s different from the rest of us, on a separate level …” Jacques Laffite describing Gilles Gilles...
Sebastian Vettel Biography Vettel, one of four children was born on July 3, 1987 in Heppenheim, Germany to Norbert and...
Kjell Qvale passed away this weekend in San Francisco at the age of 94. “Mr. Q” was a pioneer for...
Luigi Fagioli Biography Luigi Fagioli was born on June 9th, 1898 to a wealthy family in the small city of...
Camille Jenatzy Biography Jenatzy’s family, originally from Hungary had settled in Schaerbeek, Belgium where where his father Constant established Jenatzy...
He was, without doubt, one of the most dominant and iconic personalities in the history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
Ronnie Peterson Biography Ronnie Peterson was born on 1944 in Örebro, Sweden, the son of an avid racer of moderate accomplishments....
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce,...
Jochen Rindt Biography Rindt was born in Germany in 1942 of Austrian and German parentage. His parents died under Allied...
Sir Jack Brabham AO, OBE, triple Formula 1 World Champion, has died at the age of 88. Sir Jack passed...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
Giulio Ramponi Biography Giulio Ramponi was born in Milan on 8 January 1902. His father died while he was still...
