1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
A few hours before the start of this June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, everyone in attendance will be treated...
Wealthy Belgian aristocrat Olivier Gendebien has the unique distinction of being Ferrari’s most successful GT and sports car racer. He won 24 top endurance classics, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans four years out of five, the Targa Florio, 12 Hours of Sebring, and Tour de France Automobile three...
Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
1968 Alfa Romeo T33/2 “What goes around comes around.” That, I believe, is a largely English way of referring to...
April 2010 The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium; Spa-Francorchamps, July 10–11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le Mans, Luigi Chinetti teamed up with Jean Lucas and won his second 24-hour race of the season. Again they used a Ferrari 166MM Barchetta. This photo was taken during the early...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America...
Bob Holden For anyone involved in motor sport within Australia, the name of Bob Holden has been a prominent one for many years. After starting out during the 1950s in a Holden (no relation) sedan Bob tackled a variety of events in both racing and rallying with a number of...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsport; the...
Paul Tracy James Hunt Photo: Maureen Magee 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race on...
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...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
The 1970 Le Mans 24 hours is immortalized in the the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, with much of the...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even qualifying a stream of uncompetitive cars to becoming the 1982 Formula One World Champion the minute he had reliable machinery with which to lay his talent bare. I first met...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
The steering feel; that’s what I remember best. The pinion perfectly meshing with its rack was a tactile delight in my fingers, giving a sense of well-bedded and properly oiled Olde English machinery cheery in its work. Second impression: the way that long, lazy-seeming six awakened at 3000 rpm and...
September 2010 A great idea that failed. Jaguar created special streamlined bodywork for its C-Types for the 1952 Le Mans 24...
Le Mans 1957 represented the high water mark for Jaguar’s iconic D-Type. Handicapped by the reduction of engine size to 3-liters...
In 1975, at Mallory Park, I made my race debut in British Touring car Championship—it was the first round of a new season. I was driving the Toyota Celica Samuri 1600-cc for the Super Samuri Team. I diced the whole race against this Ford Escort RS2000 entered by London Sports...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically think “Jaguar” upon hearing the words “Le Mans,” but the reverse linkage is more likely to be true. Although it had enjoyed prior racing success, Jaguar truly rose to international...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like Biggles and Dick Barton, Special Agent. In Sir Henry Birkin Bt, however, they had a real live, walking, talking hero and they idolized him all the more. He was passably...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally...