I went to Daytona the year Dan Gurney’s All American Racers /Toyota GTP won the race, their first Daytona 24...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
Chevrolet recently debuted the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar, a year before it makes its competition debut at the 2024 Rolex 24 At Daytona. Making its public debut at Daytona International Speedway ahead of the Rolex 24, the Corvette Z06 GT3.R is Chevrolet’s first racecar that fully meets FIA technical...
One of the Petersen Automotive Museum’s latest exhibits, “Corvettes in Competition: Racing America’s Sports Car,” continues to create quite a...
The Brumos Porsche 911 Carrera RSR of Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood finished 1st overall in the 1975 edition of...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it is long-distance sports car racing, particularly in Porsches, where Bell forged his legacy as a champion with five overall victories at Le Mans, three victories in the 24 Hours of...
I actually started racing with the Nissan GTP team late in 1988, while I was still racing Indycars. I was...
PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year,...
Driven to Win The Petersen Automotive Museum’s newest exhibit, “Driven to Win: The Automobile in Competition,” is now open in the Charles Nearburg Family Gallery. The display showcases over 100 years of motorsport history across various competitive disciplines and highlights the technologies that propelled winning race cars across the finish...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson,...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbräu-sponsored Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Graham Hill Ronnie Peterson 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
Alain Prost John Surtees 5 Sir Malcolm Campbell drives his Napier-Campbell to a World Land Speed Record of 256.086 mph...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...
Bobby Rahal A.J. Foyt 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 6 Indy 500 winner Pat Flaherty...
At the end of 1969, during the height of the Ferrari-Porsche World Sports Car Championship “wars,” Jo Siffert was wined...
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the factory team was ready to go for overall honors at the major endurance races, and at Le Mans in particular. Porsche was well known in the marketplace for creating the...
Edited & Reviewed by Rex McAfee McLaren’s new Artura GT4 The new McLaren Artura GT4 impressed on its competitive debut...
Edited and Reviewed by Rex McAfee Mercedes Benz to Victory Circle The No. 79 WeatherTech Racing/Proton Competition Mercedes-AMG GT3 team...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early years of Peter’s racing career. This month Hal tells the rest of the story. Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker Being a photographer himself, Peter Gregg was appreciative of my skills. At...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the...
We seem to hear more and more these days about the sorry state of the media. I’d say I have to agree, after a formerly reputable automotive radio talk show, Drivers Talk Radio, recently asked me to be a guest. Jeez, how low will these people sink for material? The...
