Jim Clark Robert Benoist 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer and Shadow. Follmer brought his Shadow in sixth...
Robert Benoist Björn Waldegård 3 Teo Fabi wins the Mid-Ohio CART race. Only CART win for engine supplier Porsche and...
Al Holbert Clay Regazzoni 3 Brian Redman wins the F5000 race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, in a Lola T330. Jody Scheckter finishes 3rd and clinches the SCCA/USAC F5000 title (1973). 4 Earl Cooper beats his Stutz teammate, Gil Anderson, by .25 seconds in winning the 500-mile race at Minneapolis, Minnesota (1915)....
The 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps; Spa-Francorchamps, May 9, 1971. The Ferrari 312PB driven by Jackie Ickx and Clay Regazzoni rounds La...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use...
Pete Lyons 2006 already! Those mileposts are just whizzing by, aren’t they? I feel like I’m riding up Pikes Peak with Bobby Unser and he’s out to scare me (the boy is known for that). Living on the edge is fun. After all, that’s why we’ve gathered here today. But...
Robert Benoist Mika Hakkinen 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Grand Prix winner Clay Regazzoni, 67, was killed in a road accident on December 15, 2006. He was driving his...
I didn’t see the accident happen, and it was many laps later when my photo trek around South Africa’s Kyalami circuit brought me to the blackened wreckage. Thanks to the public address speakers, I knew Clay Regazzoni was alive. Still, his burned-out BRM was a grisly sight and I thought...
Late last month, just as we were going to press, we learned of the tragic and untimely death of ’70s...
Ferrari—let the word roll over your tongue. Doesn’t it taste good? Have you ever experienced—can you even imagine—a better name...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice for the nonchampionship Mexican Grand Prix (1962). 2 The Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California, to announce the formation of the Bud...
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and the Sports Car Club of South Africa will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly become accustomed to replacing rather than repairing whatever device it may be that requires attention. This is especially true for racing cars, where the advance of knowledge and technology in...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons Jovicus “Hill of Jupiter.” Whatever the origin of its name, this hill that overlooks Barcelona’s harbor has been known as Montjuic for more than a thousand years. Now using the...
One of the most inspiring stories in the history of motorsport recently took place, and though few in the motorsport...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, (1973). 2 Pierre Veyron wins the voiturette race at Albi, France, driving a Bugatti Type 51A (1933). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African could become a Formula One World Champion. Not even their crystal ball, though, could have predicted how: it was when driving a Ferrari 312T4 at Monza, the holiest of holies...
Alfred Neubauer Charlie Whiting Mark Donohue Wolfang von Trips 1 Ernst Loof, Werner Miethe, Lorenz Dietrich, and George “Schorsch” Meier...