My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
Art Evans There used to be a monthly feature in the Reader’s Digest called something like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California in a world filled with automobiles and explored many of the pathways on that landscape. From an initial baptism in hot rodding, he moved naturally into drag racing, working with...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka...
October 2016 From the British Grand Prix at Aintree on July 18, 1959, we see Carroll Shelby trying hard with...
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...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
Another sports car racing pioneer has left us as Bill Pollack has passed away just nine days after marking his...
Peter Brock, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe (above, photo courtesy David Newhardt), will be the honored guest at the Simeone Foundation’s annual fundraising dinner, scheduled for 6 p.m. on November 16 in Philadelphia. The “Spirit of Competition” is the theme of the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, and each year...
A 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, chassis no. 0510 M, that was successfully raced in period by three top American...
By honoring 45 years of Carroll Shelby’s Mustangs and a full century of Alfa Romeos, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, celebrated its eighth renewal during this year’s Monterey Classic Car Week. Crowds once again flocked onto the grounds of the Quail Lodge golf course in Carmel Valley to soak in...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
We seem to hear more and more these days about the sorry state of the media. I’d say I have...
This interesting Web site is devoted to preserving historic photographs of the Cumberland Airport Sports Car races. Held from 1953–1970, the Cumberland airport, in western Maryland, hosted a variety of local and SCCA road races, on a classic “airport-style” temporary road course. On occasion, big names like Carroll Shelby, Roger...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the Kellogg Auto Archives, where Ron Kellogg has assembled a collection of more than a million negatives chronicling nearly a century of automotive activity. It also contains a vast array of...
In 1962, Georges Filipinetti, a wealthy Swiss buisnessman and diplomat, founded his namesake racing team, essentially a Swiss national team,...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
It’s sometime easy to loose sight of the fact that the heroes of racing are, by and large, just people....
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California,...
Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati (1967). 5 Trevers Walkett, one of four brothers who formed Ginetta Cars, dies at age 76 (2000). Become a Member &...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar Championship-winning team of 1959, it seemed reasonable to speak with another racer who worked in that fabled John Wyer-run team, Rex Woodgate. Woodgate is a notoriously detail-oriented mechanic who became...