I went to Daytona the year Dan Gurney’s All American Racers /Toyota GTP won the race, their first Daytona 24...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit “Come Together” somewhere in the back of my head. I have often used the metaphor of how some of the most interesting motor racing tales are based on an almost...
Ignazio Giunti Jackie Oliver 4 Count Agusta buys O.S.C.A. from the Maserati brothers (1963). 8 F1 and CART champion Nigel...
Luigi Villoresi John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra RS500 is homologated for Group A touring car racing (1987). 1 F1...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things get a little stale, or as a response when it is perceived that the public is losing interest. Other times it’s driven by sponsors...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
THE ELECTRAMOTIVE / NPTI NISSAN GTP ZX Nissans have been raced for far longer than most people think. Additionally, the people who have raced them have also stayed remarkably true to the marque. In 1971 the BRE Datsun team comprised: John Morton and Pete Brock as drivers (John also worked...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
I actually started racing with the Nissan GTP team late in 1988, while I was still racing Indycars. I was brought in to support Geoff Braham’s championship effort, and met them in Phoenix for a test at Firebird. My first race was the street race in Columbus, Ohio, and I...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
On October 4-6, GTP cars will return to Monterey’s Laguna Seca racetrack when they headline the facility’s first annual U.S....
As you’ll see elsewhere in this month’s issue, 37 sophisticated Group C and GTP machines took part in a historic support race for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. This gathering was interesting for several reasons, not the least of which being that it may have provided an answer...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
Andre Ribeiro Len Sutton 1 Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at...
Gilles Villeneuve Patrick Tambay 1 Patrick Tambay drives a Ferrari 126C2 to victory in the Grand Prix of San Marino...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in a Gulf Mirage-Ford M1 (1967). 2 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to win the under-two-liter class of the USRRC race at Riverside, California. Jim Hall’s Chaparral wins overall...
The two-car historic Mustang GTP effort of Americans Richard and Benton Bryan made their European debut at the Group C/GTP...
Historic motor racing organizer Masters Historic Racing has confirmed details of its series of races for Group C /GTP/IMSA sports...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in the Toohey’s 1000 at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1989). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the last race of the 750kg racing formula, the...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
April 2018 • The 41st edition of Historic Sportscar Racing’s Classic Motorsports Mitty returns to Road Atlanta, April 26-29, with a celebration of all things Nissan as it honors the Japanese manufacturer. For decades Nissan has enjoyed a large presence in all forms of North American motorsports, from the ubiquitous...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
Nearly 12 years ago, Parker Johnstone walked away from a strong career as a professional Indy car driver with 2...
Pete Lyons I edged my toes to the brink of an abyss a thousand feet deep, issuing my own small dare to this mighty mountain, and from this precarious apex of the world I gazed a hundred miles out to the vast eastern horizon, where dawnlight was rising to join...
