Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives...
2 Swede Savage dies from injuries suffered in a wreck 33 days earlier during the Indianapolis 500 (1973). Pedro Rodriguez...
Alan Jones Tazio Nuvolari 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a practice crash for the German Grand Prix (1964). 1 F1 driver Patrick Depailler is killed in a crash during testing (1980). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Robert Benoist Björn Waldegård 3 First race held at Monza, Italy, a Grand Prix Voiturette race, is won by Pietro...
George Follmer Masten Gregory 1 David Bruce-Brown, the first American to win a Grand Prix, dies during practice for the...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand Prix, because it was this irascible millionaire who first came up with the idea of staging an international motor race, with national teams and colors. And the 1903 Gordon Bennett...
One sunny spring day in Spain, twenty-three Grand Prix drivers shut themselves into a van in a race paddock, refusing...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
You know, I had the experience of working with some great teams and on some “interesting” projects. For example, I was in the Ligier team when they had the Alfa Romeo engine, and that was a very difficult period. The problem was that Alfa had a lot of people who...
Pedro Rodriguez A.J. Foyt 1 FIA declares there can be sponsorship on cars participating in racing they sanction, provided the...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
John Fitch Tony Adamowicz 2 Tony Adamowicz, racer and founding vice president of the Polish Racing Drivers Association, is born (1941). 4 Six-time IMSA Camel GT champion and two-time SCCA Trans-Am champion Peter Gregg is born in New York City (1940). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Bruce McLaren Jean Alesi 1 Rudolph Caracciola, driving a Fanfir, finishes 4th in his first auto race at Avus, in...
FORMULA ONE & TWO AT REIMS, 1958 | It could never happen now. Ian Burgess was a works Cooper driver...
Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that included a Champ Car round and the Imperial City Bank Historic Grand Prix. Rick Knoop’s 1979 Tyrrell 009, the ex-Didier Pironi Candy-sponsored car, dominated practice and the race but only...
Richard Petty Antonio Ascari 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for Team Penske’s first...
The 4th Grand Prix Historique de Monaco, held May 15–16, was again over-subscribed and Jean Sage, former team manager for...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a Voiturette Grand Prix won by Pietro Bordino in a Fiat 804-403 (1922). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as...
No other Grand Prix winner has ever sung Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo in public or been able to cook like Chicago’s star chef, Charlie Trotter—no driver except Giuseppe Campari that is. Campari could do all of those things, as well as win classic road races like the Mille Miglia. Talents...
Grand Prix Masters, the international race series for historic Formula One cars from 1966–1978, is expanding its role in historic...
My career started many years ago, in 1974. I was born in 1962, but I did my first racing in...
Achille Varzi, in the Alfa Romeo 158 “Alfetta”, set the 2nd fastest time for Heat 1 behind the Alfa 158 of Carlo Trossi.Photo: Ed McDonough Collection Motor racing, especially at the Grand Prix level, had reached a frenzied pace before World War II but was brought to a halt in...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
My interest in touring cars goes back to the ’60s when I watched the likes of Jim Clark in a...
A.J. Foyt Peter Gregg 4 Six-time IMSA Camel GT champion and two-time SCCA Trans-Am champion Peter Gregg is born in New York City (1940). 5 First La Carrera Panamerica road race begins. 132 cars enter the 5-day, 2,178-mile race running the length of Mexico from Jaurez, on the Texas border,...
Vic Elford Lucien Bianchi 1 Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert drive a Porsche 962 to victory in the...
I first raced at Monaco in 1955, a famous year for the Grand Prix, when Ascari went into the water....
Pedro Rodriguez Peter Ryan 2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash during the Formula Junior race at Reims, France (1962). 4 Frank Verbeck wins $50,000 when he drives a Fiat to victory in the 444-mile Pan-Pacific Road Race from Los Angeles...