The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 will be held August 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The list of race...
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Ralph DePalma Biography Before the world knew of the Andretti brothers there was another American of Italian immigrant parents by...
Motor Racing History – 3.5-litre Naturally-Aspirated Engines, Active Suspension and Electronic Driver Aids 1989 was another McLaren year but this time the championship was won by Alain Prost. With turbos now banned the other teams were able to reduce their deficit to the Hondas. During the season there were six...
Motor Racing History – The Monsters F1 Turbo Engines The Turbo Years The war between FISA and FOCA continued into...
Motor Racing History – Radical Technical Innovations & The Era of Ground-Effects The Birth of Ground-Effects Two major developments occurred...
Motor Racing History – The Big 12 Cylinders & The Arrival of Sponsorships, Advanced Safety and Aerodynamics Checkbook Racing The 1968 season had barely begun before it was rocked to its very foundations by the death of its biggest star, Jimmy Clark, in a minor Formula 2 race (ed. The circumstances...
Motor Racing History – New British Teams & The Rear-Engined Revolution The Rise of British Racing Green Green cars began...
Motor Racing History – Formula One And A World Championship For Drivers In 1946, following World War II, only four...
Motor Racing History – The Pre-War Grand Prix Period Formula Libre Grand Prix racing in accordance with a strict formula based on engine size and weight was abandoned in 1928.In its place, races were run under Formula Libre rules. In lieu of the major manufacturers, drivers raced as privateers or...
Motor Racing History – Early Racecourse Development Racing on public roads was illegal in England and British drivers had to...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
Racing History – Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Races The Initial Races So was heralded the Long Island Vanderbilt Cup races. Many races have been held under the Vanderbilt Cup banner but the initial races from 1904-1910 on the streets of Long Island marked the high point of this series. Born...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
The Riverside International Automotive Museum has announced that Parnelli Jones will be the Honored Guest at the third annual Legends...
Can-Am McLaren M8B – The Perfect Race Car Story and Photos by Pete Lyons Some race cars come off the shop floor ready to win their very first race. One beauty famous for doing so was 1967’s F1 Lotus 49. More rarely, a new car will win its first couple...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
Motor Racing History – Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The...
Formula 1 vs NASCAR – Which is the Superior Motorsport? Motorsports have become an integral part of sports worldwide, with fans turning up in huge numbers regularly to get a glimpse of their favourite drivers flying past at crazy speeds, while massive numbers of viewers tune in to watch on...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the...
The 1957 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1957 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 12-13, 1957 / Winner: Taruffi / Winning...
The 1956 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1956 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 29-30 1956 / Winner: Castellotti / Winning Speed: 85.90 mph / Starters: 365 / Finishers: 182 In 1956 Maserati, having managed to engage Stirling Moss, entered the Sports Car Championship as well as Formula One. Fangio moved...
The 1955 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1955 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1955 / Winner: Moss – Jenkinson...
The 1954 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1954 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1954 / Winner: Ascari / Winning...
The 1953 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1953 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 25-26, 1953 / Winner: Marzotto G. – Crosara – Rolfo / Winning Speed: 88.96 mph / Starters: 481 / Finishers: 286 In 1953 the FIA inaugurated the World Sports Car Championship for cars conforming to Appendix C...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
One of the men who figured prominently in our tribute to Dan Gurney in last month’s issue, veteran Indycar mechanic...
The 1952 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1952 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 4-5, 1952 / Winner: Bracco – Rolfo / Winning Speed: 80.36 mph / Starters: 501 / Finishers: 275 With the readmission of the German Federal Republic to the FIA in 1951, both Porsche, which had won its...
The 1951 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1951 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 28-29, 1951 / Winner: Villoresi – Cassani...
The 1950 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1950 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 23-24, 1950 / Winner: Marzotto G. –...
The 1949 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1949 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 24-25, 1949 / Winner: Biondetti – Salani / Winning Speed: 82.16 mph / Starters: 303/ Finishers: 182 The 16th running of the Mille Miglia proved to be it’s most popular to date with over three hundred official...
