The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf Porsche 917K he shared with Jo Siffert finishes behind the Pedro Rodriguez/Leo Kinnunen team car which he also co-drove late in the race (1970). 2 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons...
It’s time to talk NASCAR. It usually is. NASCAR’s calendar is the longest in racing, so it has the shortest...
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it...
If you ever see a photograph of Philippe Etancelin in action, chances are you will never forget him. Because he’s the one who raced cars wearing his cap back to front. Phi Phi, as Etancelin was nicknamed, was one of those monied gentleman drivers, a wool merchant who loved to...
May 2008 Blood, Sweat, and Turnips By John Cordts John Cordts drove a variety of racecars over his career, but...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer...
1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG 1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. Photo: Mercedes-AMG It seems hard to believe that most of the past 50 years of Mercedes-Benz motor sport history is, in large part, due to a small German company that, until recently, was not Mercedes-Benz. The little company...
In the pantheon of British racing greats, few have attained the near mythical status of Britain’s first Formula One World...
John Watson Manfred von Brauchitsh 3 Manfred von Brauchitsh scores the Mercedes-Benz Type W25 debut victory by winning the Eifelrennen...
June 2008 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 9-10, 1973: Two N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytonas surge along next to the Ligier-Matra JS2 driven by Jean-Pierre Paoli and Alain Couderc. Daytona # 38 was driven by François Migault and Luigi Chinetti, Jr. while #6 was driven by Milt Minter...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor racing to men and women of modest means. His speciality was conversion. And he turned the Fiat 500 and 600 low-powered tin boxes into teeth-gnashing, tire-smoking predators that won thousands...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win...
Without a doubt, the racecar that gave me the most pleasure, and therefore my greatest racecar, was the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-6. I drove it at Silverstone, with Derek Warwick as my teammate, in the 1986 Kouros 1,000-kms race, which we won by a substantial two-lap margin over the Rothmans...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International l’Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
January 2009 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 10-11, 1961. Augie Pabst seems serene at the wheel of...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man, in 1950, Emilio Giuseppe (Nino) Farina became the first driver to win the modern Formula One World Championship. The Italian was also famous for his laid-back (literally), straight-arm driving style,...
Dan Rubin, whose photographs of the calamitous 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours brought the tragedy into American homes on the...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as “True Grit—Epic Feats of Endurance” to celebrate the drive and determination of motor racing’s heroes who overcame huge physical, mental, and mechanical barriers in their quest for glory. Jackie Stewart’s...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance racing’s Big Three signature events, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is also one of just two to...