Pete Lyons Any idea what we’re looking at here? Don’t wait for me to tell you, I only have the...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that caper. And a grinning Jim Hall went on to explain that early in his career, when “I was already into the hot-rodding of race cars,” he built a Lister-Chevy with...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines rumbled around Mosport toward the first starting flag of the sixth season of the fabulous but faltering Can-Am series. Jackie Stewart, flop-haired superstar of F1, was on pole in his...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw, way down under his bluff bow, was my little white Volvo 122S hustling uphill just as hard. Obviously, both of us were enthusiasts caught up in the joyous rhythm of...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a sense the latter part of the Lotus 78. Both of those cars were essentially ground-effect cars with sliding skirts. The initial concept of the Brabham BT46 was to have surface-cooling...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me writing about the fifties, the fabulous fifties as it were. After all, this was what I was known for. I had written seven books about the decade. One of my...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
Chaparral 2J Legend “according to Jim Hall” has the idea for the Chaparral 2J came to him through a child’s...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple stopwatch. This meant that the men in the cockpits could still make a difference in the performance of their cars, and George Follmer was one of those men. The Phoenix-born...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending...
Chaparral 2H Looking back over the years you have to wonder how Jim Hall could have gotten it so wrong...
Chaparral 2E In 1966 Chaparral introduced the 2E for the Can-Am series. With its high mounted wing it was the car that changed racing forever. It scored a one-two finish at Laguna Seca with Phil Hill and Jim Hall driving. The 2E was brilliantly conceived. The wing was mounted high...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars only had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights, and various safety requirements....
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos by Hal Crocker His tender, healing hands bandaged and protected by gauze gloves to minimize the pain from his Indy burns, Denny Hulme earned the respect of one and all...
