I’ve had a dream, one of the rare ones I remember clearly and can’t stop thinking about. That must mean...
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for creating Cobras and Shelby Mustangs. But perhaps fewer know that he ventured into car creation somewhat before. During the fifties, Shelby, Jim Hall, and Jim’s brother, Richard, had a dealership...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
January 2009 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 10-11, 1961. Augie Pabst seems serene at the wheel of the battered and besmudged Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati Tipo 63 that he and Richard Thompson drove to 4th place overall at Le Mans in 1961. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
On August 4, 2007, an icon of American racing and my dear friend, John Fitch, turned 90 years old! In this day and age of medical advances plus many of us watching our diets and exercising, 90 is not nearly as unusual as in previous times. John, however has lived...
Frank Williams Erik Carlsson 3 The Intrepid, with Wayne Taylor driving, makes its IMSA GTP racing debut with a 2nd...
I had just been discharged from the Army and was pursuing my education with the help of the GI Bill....
Few individuals could better be thought of to embody the spirit of the American sportsman than Briggs Swift Cunningham. Born in 1907 to a family of means, Briggs’ life was forever changed by a chance ride in his uncle’s Dodge touring car, outfitted with a Hispano-Suiza aero engine. From that...
Briggs Swift Cunningham: one of the greatest racing figures, car engineers and team owners in America. Racing from the ’40s...
Just before we went to press, we received the very sad news that American racing pioneer Briggs Cunningham Jr. had passed away on July 2. He was 96 years old. Born in Cincinatti, Ohio in 1907, Cunningham was the consumate American sportsman, competing in both automobile and yacht racing for...
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