During the early fifties, road racing in the United States took place, for the most part, at airports. While airports...
It’s been a very long time since Bill Pollack raced his Cadillac-powered Allard to victory through the forested road course...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as Mark Donohue’s is that there are so many tales to tell it becomes difficult to know, as Bob Seger says, “what to leave in, what to leave out.” Become a...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s...
January 2008 Bugatti T35 by CMC We all seem to love highly detailed scale models of iconic racecars. Most highly...
Since the very beginning of motorsports competition, a common thread has run through the sport: It takes money to go fast. An old joke goes something like, “You know how to make a million dollars at racing? Start with five million!” In this day of Formula One teams spending half...
Pete Lovely said it best: “We couldn’t believe they would let us race through this beautiful park, which was almost...
Southern California has always been a hotbed of car aficionados. The hot rod craze started there and, after WWII, it...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, more than 340 historic cars took the checkered flag in 15 groups of racing. Cars ranging from a 1911 National to a collection of Can-Am cars from the 1960s and...
On August 28, we lost our great and good champion, Phil Hill. The entire world of motor sports is saddened....
Another sports car racing pioneer has left us as Bill Pollack has passed away just nine days after marking his...
More on the Missing Cunningham Dear Editor, On page 20 of the November, 2012 issue there is a letter with the title “Missing Cunningham?” I would like to respond to the writer, Michael Jacobsen to clarify the record. First, the photo that appears is of a Cunningham C-3 Vignale Coupe,...
The photo caption on page 31 of the November 1953 issue of Road & Track read: “A strange assortment of...
Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or...