The Unsers from Albuquerque are one of the most iconic families in the history of auto racing, and are being...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
Three-time Indy 500 winner and King of the Hill at Pikes Peak Bobby Unser will be the guest of honor at the fourth annual Legends of Riverside, scheduled for March 31–April 1 at the Riverside International Automotive Museum in the California city. “Riverside was a fantastic race track,” noted Unser,...
Three-time Indy winner Bobby Unser will serve as honorary chairman of the 9th annual Amelia Island Concours to be held...
Bob Bondurant, who led the Shelby American Cobra team’s successful 1965 World Manufacturers Championship effort, and later established one of...
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...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after...
Bobby Unser François Cevert 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive the Löwenbrau Porsche 962...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbräu-sponsored Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
John Surtees Niki Lauda 5 NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip is born (1947). 6 Porsche 906 wins its class in its...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as Italian cars were featured in virtually all classes of pre and post-war machinery, and the 100th anniversary of Alfa Romeo was the centerpiece of this year’s spectacle. An Alfa Romeo...
The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3)...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
October 2010 Little Bit Effyh Dear Editor, Mark Brinker’s Hidden Treasurers article on the Effyh “Special” brought back some vivid memories. In July 1956, as a teenager, two friends and I drove overnight from Toronto to Wilkes Barre in a TR2 to spectate at Senator Wood’s extraordinary Brynfan Tyddyn road...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had...
Jo Siffert Peter Revson 1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K sports car race at Montlhéry, France (1962). 2 The first SCCA road race, a four-lap qualifier through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York, is won by Frank Griswold in...
My story of winning the 1981 Macau Grand Prix actually began two weeks before, when I first raced the Hayashi...
Pete Lyons I edged my toes to the brink of an abyss a thousand feet deep, issuing my own small...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times,...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s...
The Road Racing Drivers Club’s seventh annual pre-Long Beach Grand Prix banquet this year honored three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser with an “Evening with Bobby Unser presented by Firestone,” at the Long Beach Hilton. RRDC president Bobby Rahal again served as Master of Ceremonies and guided Unser through the...
Despite the weather, the IROC Camaro proved capable on both the oval track at Rockingham and Silverstone’s club circuit. Photo: Pete Austin...
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the World Endurance Championship race at Spa, Belgium. The Martini LC2 of Bob Wolleck, Mauro Baldi, and Ricardo Patrese is awarded the win after the race is stopped (1985). 2 Bill...
We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style”...
The title of my column reads: “The Fabulous Fifties.” The era is one I know something about. During that time, I raced, rallied, officiated, and was an SCCA Regional Board member. In addition, I shot photos, wrote articles, and had a wide friendship that included some of you. Also, I...
