Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, (1974). 2 Land Speed Record setter John Cobb is born in Esher, Surrey, England (1899). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
David McKay Keijo Eric “Keke” Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies...
May 2017 During the Sussex Trophy Race at Goodwood, on April 7, 1958, Archie Scott Brown keeps the works Lister-Jaguar ahead of the works Aston Martin DBR2 of Stirling Moss, as both cars exhibit lovely four-wheel drifts. Moss won, while Scott Brown was a DNF. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI...
Jules Goux John FitchPhoto: Mercedes 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Gilles Villeneuve wins the non-championship Formula Atlantic race through the streets of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, driving a March 76B (1976). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...