Masha Pasichnyk is a 23-year-old artist living and working in Kiev, Ukraine, who is presently visiting the USA. Masha’s interest...
A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to...
The epic battle between Ferrari and Cobra had begun, but initially the Italian cars were still the best. The winner at Sebring in 1964 was the works Ferrari 275P (0812) of Mike Parkes/Umberto Maglioli, shown here leading the NART Ferrari 250 GTO (3767) of Ed Cantrell/Don Yenko/Harry Heuer that finished...
Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50...
I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney,...
We raced the car with the V-12 for the first time at Brands Hatch, at the Race of Champions.I remember it clearly as a very good handling car, and the engine had a lot of power for its time. By that time I had been racing in Europe for a...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s...
Dan Gurney once tried to show me how to wring the neck of a recalcitrant racecar to squeeze out that...
Since the first race in 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has always been considered America’s greatest race, attracting huge crowds and media attention around the world. 200 laps around a 2.5-mile oval was a grueling test of driver and his car, a real test of endurance. From the beginning, the winning...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
Former Amelia honoree and Le Mans winner Dan Gurney will return for the “Cannonball Run Revisited” seminar Saturday, March 12,...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
Most readers should be familiar with the work of Bernard Cahier and his son Paul-Henri as chroniclers of the Formula...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the Pau Grand Prix Formula 2 race in Pau, France (1967). 3 Leo Kinnunen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the 300-kilometer Interserie race on the Nürburgring in West Germany...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo to victory in the Grand Prix of Monaco (1934). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I think someone already used that as an...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have had one example or another locked away in the garage for over 40 years. In fact, I have been quite taken by anything that was done by the Donald Healey...
Here’s a big four-oh for me: That many years ago this month the Can-Am began, and basically so did my...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans using the Maserati Tipo 61, also known as the “Birdcage” due to its intricate tubular space-frame chassis. While victory at Le Mans eluded the...
Bob Bondurant, who led the Shelby American Cobra team’s successful 1965 World Manufacturers Championship effort, and later established one of...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras winning the 1965 FIA GT championship, Shelby took over command of Ford’s struggling GT40 program and in 1966 finally handed Henry Ford II the 24 Hours of Le Mans victory...
