As you’ll read in this month’s news, there is exciting news brewing on Long Island, as a strong movement is...
Recent developments in Long Island, New York, indicate that the fate of Bridgehampton Raceway may not be sealed after all. According to Guy Frost, who heads an organization known as the Bridgehampton Racing Heritage Group (BRHG), the political leaders of the town of Southhampton may be prepared to change their...
What started as an April Fool’s joke on a long defunct track, ended up becoming an interesting insight into fear...
The OSCA of Al Garthwaite on the starting grid gets last minute advice from the crew.Photo: Ozzie Lyons www.petelyons.com What?...
Racecar designers are sometimes accused of copying others’ ideas, but are they really “copy cats,” or is it a case of “great minds think alike?” Something worth examining, albeit there is evidence on both sides of the argument. In any case, if a designer sees that one of his rivals...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
September 30, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of opening day at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit. To help commemorate this...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...
After sending in last month’s column, I was prepared for the Editor’s call to discuss corrections, or photo selection, or...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was given a brief by film manufacturer Agfa-Gevaert that most motor racing fans would have given their right arm to do. In short, he was asked to capture the atmosphere and...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
We seem to hear more and more these days about the sorry state of the media. I’d say I have...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
There was a summer of my life when I often walked back home from an evening ramble in a European...
The Paddock at Watkins Glen in 1954 is filled with a representative sampling of the caars being raced, including Jaguar...
This month’s featured Web site comprises a large collection of photography from East Coast road racing events in the 1960s. Some of the many events and locations include USRRC, Can-Am and SCCA regional events at places like Bridgehampton, Watkins Glen, Lime Rock, Vineland, Marlboro and Bryar. In addition to being...