McLaren’s F1 roadcar is arguably the best car ever produced by racing manufacturer McLaren, and was often referred to as...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was...
Photo: Courtesy of the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen In 1983 Matt Jones of Livingston, Texas, received an unexpected telephone call from a man in Porterville, California. The man said, “I hear you’re interested in Alfa Romeos, and I have a Disco Volante I want to sell.”...
There are few things that car guys love more than the story of a fabulous automotive find…the wilder, the better....
2011 Jaguar XKR Coupe & Convertible In this the 50th year of the hallowed E-Type, it seemed only too fitting to take a turn behind the wheel of the current spiritual descendant of the XKE—the XKR. The XKR, is distinguished from the standard XK model, ostensibly by its 510-hp supercharged V8 engine, which...
At the Velocity Invitational event in Sonoma, Ford revealed the GT MkIV, the ultimate evolution of the Mk II. This...
Fitting that a classic car show is staged at a classic venue and with its move from London’s Millennium Excel...
February 2018 The Crystal Palace Trophy, Crystal Palace, June 11, 1962. At the start, it’s Roy Salvadori on pole in the Reg Parnell Racing’s Lola 4, with Bruce McLaren’s Cooper 55 alongside and Trevor Taylor, in the works Lotus 24-BRM, on the inside. The eventual winner would be Innes Ireland,...
The Porsche 918 Spyder was a mid-engined, plug-in hybrid hypercar that finally proved that gearheads had nothing to worry about...
1967 Lola T70 Spyder 1967 Lola T70 Spyder. Photo: Casey Annis The names Roger Penske and Mark Donohue are almost...
During the Brands Hatch Six Hours on April 13, 1969, Chris Amon comes up to Druids, his lone Ferrari 312P complete with all sorts of aero devices to help keep the nose down. Amon had Pedro Rodriquez as his co-driver, but they were no match for a gaggle of Porsche...
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have...
Morgans were regularly used in England before World War II in Rallies, Trials and Speed Tests. This is a Morgan (a +4 perhaps) being driven by Mr. M.A.C. Simmonds at the Handling Test that was part of the Seventh Brooklands Rally on March 26, 1938. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
A single blown tire put an end to one of the greatest open-road races of all time. Driving along the...
Relive the excitement of the 1978 Italian Grand Prix with this onboard footage of Jacques Laffite driving a Ligier-Matra JS9 around the Monza Circuit....
A proving ground like no other Automotive factory proving grounds and test tracks are like Disneyland – the fun is...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated...
The 1969 ZL-1 Corvette came equipped with an entirely new big-block engine option that produced more horsepower than any Corvette that had come before it. Any Corvette, when ordered with RPO ZL1, came fitted with an all-aluminum 427 C.I. engine that featured a dry-sump oil system and which weight approximately...
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO There will be no cliches, euphemisms, over-emotional exaggerations, or use of the word “icon” in this...
Just how far will a fanatical collector go to capture the racecar of his obsessions? Would he carry a satchel...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this column on February 23. Not an insignificant date in that it happens also to be the day, 85 years ago, that a man by the name of Hans Herrmann was...
Then. I’ve been hiding something from you. I’m not proud of it, and it’s been going on for way too...
During the Sebring 12 Hours on March 25, 1961, heavy traffic in the Webster Turns finds the factory-entered Austin-Healey Sebring...
I first became aware of ERAs in 1945, and their special significance to British motor sport, together with their originator and promoter Raymond Mays, who was also responsible for the creation of BRM cars. Mays was a very fast driver and his many wins with ERAs helped him to sell...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Gabriel Voisin was an amazing man. Born in France in 1880, he built a four-wheeled automobile...
Then. By his own admission, Geoff Hacker specializes in finding cars that no one is looking for. It’s actually an...
Paul McMorran The loss of John Crosslé at the end of August 2014 completes the passing of a remarkable generation in motorsport. John had much in common with the contemporaries and friends who founded Lola, Mallock, Chevron and other icons of what many consider a golden age. Eric Broadley, Arthur...
