A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
The headline story from this year’s Le Mans Legends race, prelude to the main 24-hour event, was the announcement of the retirement from racing of Sir Stirling Moss. Sir Stirling was entered to race his Porsche RS61 this year, co-driving with Ian Nuttal, but upon his withdrawal Nuttal continued as...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
Without a doubt, the racecar that gave me the most pleasure, and therefore my greatest racecar, was the Silk Cut...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no rivers of the liquid-brown confection and you won’t find even a single Everlasting-Gobstopper. There are sales people and mechanics and detailers, but sadly not-a-one Oompa Loompa. By comparison the place...
On November 18 to 20, it was scheduled that the 2022 season finale for 2022 24H SERIES powered by Hankook...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
Contrary to what many may believe, the first time I drove a Porsche 917 was when I first sat in one to qualify for the 1969 Le Mans 24 Hours. There were three 917s entered for the race: the privately owned John Woolfe car, the Rolf Stommelen/Kurt Ahrens car, and...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
There have been classic races at Le Mans, and races for classics, but the 2002 Le Mans Classic was about...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a single target, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was an effort that was immensely successful, and having done it once, Jaguar waited for a period of years and...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
I don’t think there has ever been a car that has captured the public’s imagination more than the Jaguar E-Type....
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours-winning GT40 MkIV that carried Gurney and A.J. Foyt to history’s only all-American win in the French endurance classic. “I don’t think we could have found a better...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America today see road racing as more a sub-genre of motor sport, with the nation thoroughly consumed by oval racing on tracks that seem to dot the continental 48-state landscape with...
(From Left to Right): Steve McQueen, Pedro Rodriguez, Masten Gregory, Peter Revson, Mario Andretti.Photos: Hal Crocker That was Mario Andretti’s...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie Scott-Brown, but that shrewd judge of racing driver talent Juan Manuel Fangio, who won the Formula One World Championship five times, called this diminutive Scot phenomenal, and said he showed...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major...
The Expert’s Guide to Collecting FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTORSPORT BOOK COLLECTING by Chris Knapman Book collecting is a very personal pastime, but don’t just buy every motor-racing book you see that’s cheap. First establish a theme that reflects your particular interests: endurance racing, Formula One, road cars or the works of...
Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win...
In 1994, I became Technical Director for RML Ltd., which was competing in the RAC British Touring Car Championship. John Cleland and Jeff Allam were our drivers and we were racing Vauxhall Cavalier saloons. The following year John won the BTCC championship. Graham HumphrysPhoto: Mike Jiggle It was during this...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One with Williams using its V10 unit in 2000, every single engine raced by BMW had been derived from a production unit. As the company celebrates its centenary, it seems appropriate...