As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
Jimmy Clark Biography Jimmy Clark was born in Kilmany, in the county of Fife to a Scottish farming family, roots that would stay with him for the rest of his life. He was the only son in a family of four daughters. His early racing exploits were initially met by...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called “The Eagles Have Landed.” The exhibit in the museum’s Charles Nearburg Family Gallery will showcase the diversity of the various racing cars constructed by Gurney’s All American Racers in nearby...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill or Dan Gurney, heroes of the ’60s. But it was, in fact, much earlier than that. The first was David Bruce-Brown, a strikingly handsome young New Yorker and son of...
Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike...
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, 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....
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his racing career covered everything from Volvo sedans to Indycars and Ferrari sports racers. In remembrance of Tony’s recent passing and this issue’s Ferrari theme, we pay tribute by sharing some...
Racing great Daniel Sexton Gurney has died at the age of 86. Gurney passed away on Sunday, January 14, 2018...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the...
Harry A. Miller Bobby Allison 1 Dan Gurney drives a Weslake Ford-powered Eagle to victory in the USAC Championship race at Riverside, California (1968). 3 NASCAR legend Bobby Allison is born (1937). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
GT350 Dear Editor, As a 30-plus year owner of a GT350H, the Hertz car on the cover of your Roadcar...
• Hardy Allen, a longtime Indycar crewman with teams such as Dan Gurney’s All American Racers and A.J. Foyt Enterprises, has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Allen, large black man with a warm and outgoing personality, was a pioneer for his race in the sport, enjoying...
The Henry Ford Museum’s newly restored Lotus 38, the first rear-engined car to win the Indianapolis 500, made its North...
September 2008 Abarth–The Man, The Machines By Luciano Greggio As outlined in this month’s feature article (pg. 52), over the course of the ’60s and ’70s, Austrian-born, Italian-small-car manufacturer Karl “Carlo” Abarth produced an amazingly prodigious string of competitive sports and racing cars from very humble underpinnings. With countless models...
August 2007 Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
November 2000 Dan Gurney—The Ultimate Racer By Karl Ludvigsen Mention the name Dan Gurney and what comes to mind? The...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March 25, 1966. Eventually known as simply the Trans-Am, the series became the most closely contested road-racing series in America. The Tran-Am blossomed quickly, reached its zenith in 1970 and then...