The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158 crashes in heavy rain during practice for the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten (1948). 4 A.J. Foyt wins the Firecracker 400 NASCAR stock car race at Daytona, Florida (1964). Become...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer to make a tough call It’s like tasking a parent to choose between children. Each is dearest for different reasons. Nonetheless, we believed it not inappropriate to ask Dan Gurney...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
The public address announcer at a racetrack may be the single most important aspect for enticing new fans into the...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand Prix race run in Pau, France (1939). 3 Battista “Pinin” Farina, auto racer and coach builder, dies (1966). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas (1976). 3 Giuseppi Campari drives an Alfa Romeo to victory in the European Grand Prix at Lyon, France (1924). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at...
A.J. Foyt has been named Grand Marshall for next January’s 50th Anniversary running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The...
To say that Roy Gane has strong opinions would be to say that Cadbury’s makes chocolates. It’s evident as soon as you open a conversation with Roy that he has strong opinions on people in racing, races, racecar preparation and on racing politics. Perhaps it’s because he has done nearly...
Peter Gregg Dear Editor, I hope this note finds you well. Though I loved your magazine’s Hurley Haywood article, I’m even...
A.J. Foyt Pedro Rodriguez 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on...
• Tim Wardrop, who was Arie Luyendyk’s race engineer when the Dutchman set the all-time one- and four-lap speed records...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
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...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s...
Mike Costin Bill Milliken.Photo: Bentley Publishing 1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2 Pierre Veyron wins the voiturette race at Albi, France, driving a Bugatti Type 51A (1933). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...