Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do so again. It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in 1963 at Daytona International Speedway, were it not...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
Nigel Bennett The UK branch of Firestone Racing Division was formed because the U.S. factory had been supplying racing tires...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Inducted into the Hall that night will be racing industry legends Jack Chrisman, Harvey Firestone, Masten Gregory, Brad Lackey, Bud Moore, Robert E. Petersen and...
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time U.S. National Champion Al Unser will be honored during Legends Day at Indianapolis this...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim Hall’s air dam problem and the Cooper that Howden Ganley mentioned in his letter. When we ran the Shelby Cooper that was at Laguna Seca in ’64 we did modify...
Fifty years is quite a long time, in politics or any other activity. In motor racing, though, 50-year anniversaries seem...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Dennis Firestone I began racing at age 18 in 1962, on TT motorcycles with my brother-in-law, Don Kratofil, and a friend, Tim Shaw, both of whom were truck drivers working with me at my first trucking company, Safeway Delivery. The delivery service had a six-day-a-week schedule so there were some...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in...
Parnelli is not his real name. Rufus Jones’ middle name is Parnell. His mother named him after a Judge Parnell...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told how one of Jim Hall’s Chaparrals was suffering an aerodynamic problem that was resolved by drilling holes in the bodywork. Naturally Jim was not going to give away any secrets,...
Volkswagen Camper—Six Decades of Success By Richard Copping Interest in—and sale prices of—early Volkswagen busses and campers hasskyrocketed in recent...
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving a lay-down roadster that was built by Quin Epperly. Actually, in my rookie year—my first year there was 1960—I almost won the race at Milwaukee. I was leading in the...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...