I have to say, that when it comes to motorsport, my wife has been amazingly tolerant of my little affliction....
December 2016 Tony Bettenhausen & Sons: An American Racing Family Album By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen Family...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence Was Expected (VR Sept. ’09), we noted that it was more a book of text than anything, an obvious nod to the depth of the subject matter embodied...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and...
During the first half of the Twentieth Century Fageol Motors and the later Fageol Twin Coach Company were innovators in...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful businessman and landowner. The family lived in Santana, a well-to-do neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Growing up Ayrton was an awkward child and was later diagnosed as having a motor...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French...
Jack Johnson behind the wheel. Black participation in American motorsports dates back to 1909, when then heavyweight champion Jack Johnson...
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...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup, co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC, was essentially an “unlimited” series. Although there was...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
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...
Few figures in American racing history have had as much impact as Harry Miller, builder of an incredible range of...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
Pete Lyons Forgive me, please, but I can’t tell you much about any of these oddities. I present them here and now for the same reason that made me and, I presume, my dad take their pictures—astonishment. “Hey, isn’t this a weird one?” Some were quite good-looking, but others…well, maybe...
Gentlemen, please put the pens down. Now, place your checkbooks on the table and slowly back away from the podium…no...
Many were the similarities shared by young American racer Bobby Marshman and the Scottish Legend Bobby Marshman Photo: IMS Colin Chapman...
• The Great South American Challenge, organized by H&H Classic Rallies, crossed the finishing line in Ushuaia—the world’s most southerly town—after 14,500 gruelling kilometers of action, triumph and adventure, stretching from Rio de Janeiro to the very tip of the world. The start on February 14 was organized to coincide...
The Bahamas Speed Weeks Revised Edition, including the Revival Meetings By Terry O’Neil From 1954 to 1966, the Bahamas Speed...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Seventeen years ago, I started this magazine, in no small part, because I was finding it increasingly difficult to be surrounded by so much sadness and death at the National Cancer Research hospital where I was working as a research scientist. Little did I know, at the...
The Ford GT40 MkII with which Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon scored Ford’s initial victory at Le Mans in 1966...
Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races, 1953-1962 By Terry O’Neil This latest volume from author O’Neil turns his inquisitive eye toward America’s seminal Mid-Atlantic states during the decade between 1953 and 1962. It follows a familiar path taken by his previous books chronicling sportscar racing in the American Northeast and at...
Photo: Darin Schnabel | Courtesy of RM Auctions American classics were the star of RM’s October 11-12, 2012, Hershey auction,...
Although there were a number of pre-WWII cars that can be described as sports cars, the craze in the U.S....
Historic Winton, Australia’s largest and most popular all-historic motor race meeting, will celebrate its 33rd renewal of honoring the past this May 30–31 with nonstop racing featuring more than 400 historic racing cars and motorcycles from the period between 1920 and 1990. This year’s event will be held at Winton...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at...
Photo: Sean Smith Watkins Glen, New York, September 19, 1953. On lap 19, of a scheduled 22-lap race, Walter Hansgen lost the lead of the Watkins Glen Grand Prix. Walt’s car began to run out of fuel—a momentary stumble—forcing him to switch to his reserve tank and allowing the more...