A few hours before next June’s start of the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the morning...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Inducted into the Hall that night will be racing industry legends Jack Chrisman, Harvey Firestone, Masten Gregory, Brad Lackey, Bud Moore, Robert E. Petersen and...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), in association with the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) and Vintage Racing Events (VRE), has announced...
A few hours before the start of this June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, everyone in attendance will be treated to a 45-minute contest for cars from the Group C era at the legendary event. Race fans will be able to witness machinery from Jaguar, Sauber-Mercedes, Porsche, Mazda, and Nissan,...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
My involve-ment with Audi came directly from my work, as a supplier to Audi, with exhaust systems and catalytic converters. The company I was involved with was Gillet, a West German company where I was head of their research and development department. Audi was a regular customer, and I got...
The steering feel; that’s what I remember best. The pinion perfectly meshing with its rack was a tactile delight in...
The organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced that Jaguar will be the featured marque for this year’s...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a car the likes of which had not been seen before. Fitted with a truly inspired DOHC six-cylinder engine and clothed by a streamlined flowing coachwork, evocative of that hopeful post-WWII...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
Starting his career in the early ’60s behind the wheel of a Mini, John Fitzpatrick quickly worked his way to...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a road circuit near Nimes, France (1947). 3 Jody Scheckter drives a Trojan T101 to victory in the L&M Continental F5000 race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio (1973). Become a Member...
Cale Yarborough Juan Manuel Fangio 1 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman, sharing a Porsche 908 Spyder, win the 1000-kilometer sports...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the...
Paul Tracy James Hunt Photo: Maureen Magee 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race on the Keimola Ring in Finland (1969). 2 Johnny Thomson wins the USAC Champ Car race on the one-mile dirt track at Langhorne, Pennsylvania (1957). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Patrick Head James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Arturo Merzario and Jacques Laffite drive an Alfa Romeo T33TT12 to victory...
John Watson Manfred von Brauchitsh 3 Manfred von Brauchitsh scores the Mercedes-Benz Type W25 debut victory by winning the Eifelrennen...
Bruce McLaren Jean Alesi 1 Rudolph Caracciola, driving a Fanfir, finishes 4th in his first auto race at Avus, in Germany (1922). 1 Indy car racer Tom Sneva is born (1948). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Bruce McLaren Umberto Maglioli 2 Bruce McLaren is killed in an accident while testing the McLaren M8D Can-Am racer at...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
As expected, Alberto Ascari impressed everyone with his driving of the 340 hp Ferrari 375MM in the 1953 24 Hours...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
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...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations,...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
“Once upon a time”— is the way most children’s fairytales start, but this is no French fairytale. Although it is not unlike Jean Rédélé’s (the father of Alpine) dream of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright. Just as with that story, this dream may yet become reality. The...