I wrote a book on the history of March, which came out in 1989 under the title, “Four Guys And...
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Bruce McLaren Umberto Maglioli 2 Bruce McLaren is killed in an accident while testing the McLaren M8D Can-Am racer at...
Miller “Burd Piston Ring Special” On December 9, 1875 an event occurred in Menomonie, Wisconsin, that would directly shape and affect the face of American motorsport for the next 70 years – Harry Arminius Miller was born. Despite having no more than an elementary school education, Miller went on to...
One would expect that winning the Indy 500 and the USAC driving Championship two times, as well as notching up...
Jackie Stewart Mario Andretti 1 Gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open for practice for the first Indy 500 (1911). 2...
Willow Springs, CA Mar. 10-11 John Morton made an unexpected return to 2.5-liter Trans-Am racing when he piloted, not a Datsun, but a borrowed Alfa Romeo GTV (#18) to victory in Saturday’s inaugural race. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Willow Springs, CA Mar. 10-11 The 1994 NASCAR Ford Thunderbird of Ron Huber is chased by the 1996 Thunderbird of...
This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, to be held July 6-8 in Chichester, England, will feature over 90 years of...
Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Sebring is a favorite race for underdogs. Who can forget Jim Hall’s Chaparral swimming down the pit straight on its way to vanquishing the Ford onslaught in 1965? Or the tiny Crosley winning the first Sebring race ever in 1951 (OK, it was on handicap)....
Dan Gurney has a serious conversation with Cosworth founder Keith Duckworth. Photo: Ed McDonough Collection The 1968 season was a...
Motorsport magazine, which I had the privilege to edit in the mid-1980s, recently ran a piece which claimed that 1976...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo to victory in the Grand Prix of Monaco (1934). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Sometime in the rainy wee hours of the recent Rolex 24 at Daytona, a race I find myself covering again...
Recently, the Motorsports Hall of Fame located in Novi, Michigan, announced its 2001 inductees. This year’s list included noted road...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the CSI, that were aimed at slowing down the 7-liter monsters like the Ford Mk IVs, which were dominating sports car racing. So the prototype class had a 3-liter limit imposed...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Southern California is arguably one of the finest museums of its type anywhere in the...
Jim Clark Robert Benoist 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer and Shadow. Follmer brought his Shadow in sixth place in the South African Grand Prix at Kylami (1973). 3 Indy car racer Mike Mosley dies in a road accident (1984). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Conception, a friend of mine used to say, “is the biggest word in the English language.” His aphorism came to...
Savannah, Georgia Dec. 8-10 Scott Ebert’s 1939 Dreyer-Ford leads an eclectic enduro group.Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get...
Porsche 356A Modern automobile manufacturers would tell you – if you ran the Porsche history past them without putting a name to it – that it couldn’t possibly be true. A father and son leave allied prisons after WWII and set up a small design firm. One of their projects...
Winning Le Mans, the Indy 500 or the Formula 1 World Championship is something to which most racing drivers aspire...
Every so often you encounter an image which stops you in your tracks. For me it was a photograph of Geronimo. Yup, that Geronimo – not John Wayne’s best buddy. The photo was taken in 1906, Geronimo had become a farmer and he was at the wheel of his Model-T....
The late, great automotive writer and author Dean Batchelor would be proud. Named as winner of the Motor Press Guild’s...
Alain Prost John Surtees 5 Sir Malcolm Campbell drives his Napier-Campbell to a World Land Speed Record of 256.086 mph...
1959 Lister Jaguar Few of the 30,000 spectators, bundled warmly against the biting wind, realized they were to witness the birth of a legend. The British Empire Trophy Race of 1957 took place on a cold but sunny afternoon at the heavily wooded Oulton Park circuit in rural Cheshire. In...
If you follow the business section of the paper – or the general automotive press for that matter – then...
The grass had grown long and dense in the cloudy English spring, and the silver racing coupe – a lean,...
The LeGrand Registry has announced a reunion of all LeGrand racecars to be held in conjunction with VARA’s Phoenix International Raceway event Feb. 16-18, 2001. Founded by Alden “Red” LeGrand in Southern California during the early ’60s, LeGrand built a wide range of racecars that included everything from sports racers...
