This Uli Ehret painting displays the Eau Rouge corner at Spa-Francorchamps back in 1967. The setting is exactly as it...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at Watkins Glen, the original Canadian-American Challenge Cup series was one of the most unique and awe-inspiring racing championships ever to grace the world motor sport stage. Part of the series’...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have...
In our annual special devoted to the latest trends and developments in personal safety gear we examine: • The Future of Helmets—The new Snell 2010 standard will change the way you buy helmets. • Necksavers—The latest developments in SFI-approved head and neck restraint systems. • Racing Suit Buyers Guide—More than...
Roy Winkelmann, probably best known for running the team with which Jochen Rindt rose to prominence by recording nearly two...
Eddie Rickenbacker Soichiro Honda 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 F1 World Champion Alan...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a...
August 2010 Headed for a 2nd-place finish in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, on June 23, 1963, Dan Gurney is shown sweeping into the Hunze Ruc in his Brabham BT7 as he chases after race winner Jim Clark’s Lotus. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member &...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
The epic battle between Ferrari and Cobra had begun, but initially the Italian cars were still the best. The winner...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that very nearly cost him his life, is about to go out and win his first race, only to discover his car is missing! With his racecar missing, Gurney confronts his...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade from U.S.-sourced vegetable-dyed leather. The dark brown is harness leather, will turn to a slightly lighter, reddish brown color. Leather thickness is 8-10 oz., 3.2mm-4mm. The side panels are saddle...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get his hands on or his behind into. He may have started his competitive career in the visceral world of drag racing, but soon discovered the joys of road racing and...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I think someone already used that as an...
August 2007 Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared in bookstores and was something of a bestseller in the U.S. and England. “It covers a period when the racing of fast motor cars bore little resemblance to what is...
