Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s Monterey Peninsula, this year’s event celebrated a man rather than a marque. Just as Juan Manuel Fangio was honored in 1991, so was Dan Gurney the event’s featured guest in...
As we’ve become familiar with, over the past two decades, the concept of ground effects—that is managing the airflow underneath...
Dan Gurney has been selected as the next recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Driver’s Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
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After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA) in 1950, with its first race being the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It began as a World Championship for drivers, but since it also featured the...
Road America recently announced that the AAR Eagle would be the featured marque of the 2022 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
July 2007 Surtees Choice Dear Editor: Like John Surtees [Greatest Racecars, VR May ’07], I also feel privileged to have raced the Mercedes Benz W-125. Indeed, I have now driven most of the 750 KG formula cars, yet the W-125 stands head and shoulders above the rest. Become a Member...
Forty-eight years ago, Dan Gurney qualified his All American Racers Eagle-Ford in the middle of the front row for the...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team was soon going to be announced. Yawn. Sorry, it’s not that I’m not—yawn—excited by the prospect, it’s just how many times have we heard this over the past…oh, I don’t...
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After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small-block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race organizers...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...
