Renowned motor sports photographer Jesse Alexander has won the Motor Press Guild’s Best Book 2008 award for Portraits, his third...
Several thousand people attended three days of events over the weekend of April 6-8 to commemorate the 50thanniversary of Jim...
Lotus legend Jim Clark – a national hero, one of the greatest drivers of his generation and a true motorsport icon – has been celebrated at the Bo’ness Revival Hillclimb, 60 years after he competed at the event. In 1959, armed with the very same Lotus Elite he had raced...
Former Team Lotus mechanic, Jim Endruweit, has passed away at age 83. He joined Colin Chapman and Lotus in 1957...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) named longtime track owner, race promoter and racecar driver Jim Haynes as the 2006...
Photo: Allen Kuhn American road racing star Jim Jeffords has passed away at the age of 87. Jeffords was a Wisconsinite who started racing at the age of 27, driving his own Jaguars. In 1956 he heard that Chevrolet was organizing a Corvette racing team, and contacted GM’s Ed Cole...
Hall of Famer Jim McElreath passed away last Thursday, in his hometown of Arlington, Texas, at the age of 89....
Multiple 24 Hour of Daytona winner, Jim Pace, tragically lost his battle with COVID-19 on November 13, 2020. He was...
Jim Rathmann, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500, passed away just before Thanksgiving in Palm Bay, Florida, a week after suffering a stroke. He was 83. Rathmann was one of racing’s true Speed Demons. The faster the competition the better he seemed to like it. At Indianapolis, where he won...
Former racing driver and race-school owner Jim Russell was reunited with his 1958 F2 Cooper at the Silverstone Classic weekend...
Jim Travers, who first rose to prominence along with his partner Frank Coon as the “Whiz Kids” behind Bill Vukovich’s...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old. Stewart started his motor racing career at the age of 19, competing in local Scottish hillclimb events. Early success saw him progress to circuit racing driving a Healey Silverstone, and...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
Joe Huffaker, an icon of the sports car racing world since the 1960s, passed away peacefully in his Novato home,...
Upon his return from service with the Navy during WWII, Joe MacPherson took a job selling magazines door-to-door and, legend has it, so impressed one customer with his sales ability that he was offered a job selling cars for the man’s dealership. Those abilities soon led MacPherson to open his...
Joel E. Finn, author, racer and computer industry pioneer, died January 28 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 78. The...
I remember my first encounter with John Winter. I called him John, “My name’s Spike! Call me Spike,” he said....
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has died at the age of 87. As executive director of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), Bishop’s vision took the club down the path to professionalism in the 1960s,...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
Eighty-six-year-old sports car racing legend John Fitch will attempt to enter the record books one more time when he takes...
Motor racing’s senior statesman, 92-year-old John Fitch, is being threatened with the loss of his home near Lime Rock where he has lived for more than 50 years. The house was built before the American Revolution. The state now claims, however, that a pair of 1,000-gallon underground heating oil tanks...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s...
Famed Corvette racer John Greenwood has died at the age of 71. The son of a General Motors executive, Greenwood...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that lasted 20 years, has died of heart failure at his Florida home at the age of 71. Gunn began racing on the Club level in 1965, winning the SCCA’s SEDiv...
John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of...
Racing driver, engineer, journalist and lifelong lover of jazz, John Miles sadly passed away last weekend. John was a quiet,...
John Sambrook began his Canadian racing career in 1959, racing at the Regional, National and FIA level. He was best known for his work in driver development and tenure with the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs, where he held a variety of positions through the 1960s. He was responsible for the...
Included on the Queen’s New Year Honors List this time around is the name of John Surtees, who has been...
Sad news emerged early today that motorcycle and Formula One World Champion, John Surtees has passed away at the age...
I remember talking to John Surtees a couple of years ago, and our conversation revolved around his many successes. With seven motorcycle World Championships, the 1964 F1 World Championship and the inaugural Can-Am Championship in 1966, to name but three, John wasn’t short of silverware. He did, however, cut me...
