Remember when Hollywood used to produce the odd “fun” movie—in somewhat the same theme as “the Grand Old Opry?” A...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age or other circumstances, how to fill the time is an initial worry. Author Mike Allen’s project to fill his time was to research the Oulton Park International Gold Cup races....
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most...
The Grand Prix Association of Long Beach has announced that Juan Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves will be honored with...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were very lucky to be close to Dan and his family. Casey Annis and I sat in his office and he told revealing stories, and occasionally from the other room Evi...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
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...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde corner at the bottom of the challenging Rouen-Les Essarts open road course during the French Grand Prix on July 8, 1962. Gurney was the surprise and popular winner that day,...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been a ladder for potential Grand Prix drivers to climb to qualify, or rather amass the necessary skill set/finance, to be able to race at the top level. Obviously, like all...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon,...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning the 2009 Formula One World Championship. But, like so many other kart stars of the last 30 years or so, Jenson Button did it, with a lot of team changes...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
Have you ever stopped to add up all of the different driver nationalities in motor racing and perhaps spotted a...
February 2018 Mario Andretti: A Life in Pictures By Mario Donnini The latest in author Donnini’s series of “Life in Pictures” reflections on prominent racers and events is devoted to the 1978 F1 World Champion and four-time U.S. National Indycar Champion Mario Andretti. Mario’s story should be familiar to most...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits...
Fresh from winning the FIA Founding Members’ Heritage Cup for last year’s event, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will try...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin...
A little over 20 years ago, I made a radical switch from research scientist to magazine publisher. That ridiculous move was crazy enough, but I never thought I’d go from magazine publisher to private detective, but that seems to be the arc my life is following. A little over 20...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow,...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade...
December 2017 When Colin Chapman was investigating four-wheel drive for his Lotus Formula One cars, he designed the Type 63, which Mario Andretti qualified 12th for the 1969 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. Andretti crashed out almost immediately in the race, however, losing control when the heavy car bottomed...