Vintage and historic racing—at least as we enjoy it today in the United States—has been around since the 1970s. That’s...
No racing car exemplified and exploited the admirable freedom of the Can-Am series rules more than the 1966 Chaparral 2E....
The 1967 Can-Am race at Road America signaled the start of an era that would become known as “The Bruce and Denny Show,” as Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme’s McLarens dominated the series for the next five years. These videos have exceptional Can-Am footage, especially of the dominate McLaren M6A...
The 1970 Canadian-American Challenge Cup season was the fifth season of the Can-Am auto racing series. The season began only...
My greatest racecar would have to be a choice between my first F5000 car, the 1969 McLaren, or, the 1970...
Vintage Can-Am cars from 1966-1974 will once again be the fastest, loudest and wildest class at several vintage car races in 2009. While accepted at nearly all vintage races, historic Can-Am cars will be a feature at five vintage races on the West Coast.Historic Can-Am Association (HCAA) is organizing the...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has announced the run groups for its 43rd annual vintage racecar festival, set for August...
I am unsettled. I know it. But I don’t know why. Is it this grass, groomed to unnatural golf course...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning two World Championships—with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt. Here, he shares with Keith Booker some of his recollections of those early days. How did you first become involved in motor...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
A half century has passed since the first Shadow made its competition debut at Mosport in the opening round of the 1970 Can-Am season. In 2021 the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor the 1974 Can-Am Champion and 1977 Austrian GP winner with a special class of the marque’s...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at least don’t want to, that time also will rob us of friends who don’t court risk on the track. Art Eastman, artist, photographer, writer, editor, passionate enthusiast, and friend, departed...
As I sit down to write this month’s column, Halloween quickly approaches. The stores are jammed to the gunnels with...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271...
Luigi Villoresi John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra RS500 is homologated for Group A touring car racing (1987). 1 F1...
Autocoast TI22 Peter E. Bryant (1938-2009) was born in England, and at a young age he caught the racing bug....
Despite hailing from a family essentially unconnected to motorized vehicles, Basil van Rooyen soon discovered motorcycles and after a brief fling in two-wheeled competition, switched to the relative safety of cars. Almost immediately he became involved in the manufacture of performance parts, and then began racing a Ford Anglia sedan....
Here’s a big four-oh for me: That many years ago this month the Can-Am began, and basically so did my...
Ah, spring, when a lad’s fancy turns to thoughts of…well, what do you suppose? Taut curves. Deep breathing. Throbbing… Yes, we’re talking motorcycles, of course. I’m not sure what’s happening to me, but recently my brain has been brimming with bikes. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Billy Krause started his racing career driving midgets on California oval dirt tracks. He went on to race his own...
There is something about racing which gets into the blood more thoroughly than a good dose of Castrol R and...
Longtime racer Bob Nagel has died at the age of 91. Nagel competed regularly as a privateer for more than 20 years in Can-Am (both iterations), Formula 5000 and USRRC, with occasional appearances in both the SCCA Trans-Am and IMSA’s GT and GTP categories. Nagel began racing in 1962 with...