The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road...
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...
March 2017 The 12 Hours of Sebring; Sebring, April 1, 1967. The Chaparral 2D was entered by Jim Hall for...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
In 1967, sports prototype racing was going through one of its golden eras, with plenty of entries and a wonderful driver lineup for the world championship series, which consisted of races in North America and throughout Europe. Seven different manufacturers contested the title with five of them winning races that...
Pete Lyons Any idea what we’re looking at here? Don’t wait for me to tell you, I only have the...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th annual Road Racing Drivers Club Dinner at the Long Beach Hilton on Thursday April 12, the eve of this year’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Texan Rutherford got his...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Speaking to a room packed with eager ears, Vic Elford was well into a detailed description of how he used...
Few Americans have had as significant an impact on the history and direction of global motorsport as Texan Jim Hall. As both a driver and a car constructor, Hall created and guided the highly influential Chaparral line of sports cars, which almost singlehandedly ushered aerodynamics into the lexicon of professional...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple...
No racing car exemplified and exploited the admirable freedom of the Can-Am series rules more than the 1966 Chaparral 2E....
November 2018 Denis Jenkinson Keke Rosberg Stirling Moss Tom Kristensen 1 – Final Can-Am race for Chaparral. Vic Elford starts the 2J on pole at Riverside, California, but his race ends after 5 laps, with engine failure. Denny Hulme drives a Team McLaren M8D-Chevrolet to the win (1970). 3 –...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
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The first Chaparral, the front-engine car, wasn’t my design, that was done by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. They came...
Grand opening festivities for Jim Hall’s Chaparral Gallery at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, have been set for the...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
I grew up designing on a drawing board, right to the end of my time in motor racing, and I’m...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
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Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series....
January 2009 The Father, the Son, and the 2900B Dear Editor, Your news article (VR, November 2008) on the Alfa Romeo 2900B that won the first Watkins Glen race in 1948, states that its driver was Stephen Griswold. In fact, the winning driver was Frank T. Griswold, father of Stephen,...