As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I recently had the great honor of being invited to the Indianapolis...
On the whole, French racing drivers are quite friendly toward each other and generally there is a good rapport and...
This year’s Goodwood Revival, set for September 12-14, will celebrate the 60th anniversary of arguably Britain’s most iconic sports car, the Jaguar D-Type, with a special race for examples of the legendary machine. As many as 30 D-Types, invited from around the globe, will take part in the Lavant Cup...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
Bugatti entered a team of four, 8-cylinder Type 30s for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg. Clothed in an...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died while Murphy was two and his father succumbed to injuries suffered in the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 which left Murphy an orphan. Forced to work for a living...
During the French Grand Prix at Rouen-les Essarts on July 8, 1962, John Surtees aims the Bowmaker Lola Mk4-Climax into...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting in any environment, but here, at Pau, in the Parc Beaumont, the noise bounced around between the Armco barrier and the park benches, but then was trapped under the trees...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
When Alan Taylor says he grew up in the restoration industry…he’s not kidding. At the tender age of eight, Taylor began working in his father’s automotive upholstery business. By the time he was 18, Taylor had established his own upholstery business, including work on a variety of classic cars. In...
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