Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives...
Last month, in this space, I spoke about our newest contributor Howden Ganley, whose incredible motorsport career saw him go...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
The BRM Association held their annual track day at Blyton Park, Nr. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. A good number of attendees including...
Northern California’s Classic and Sports Racing Group will host its 3rd Annual David Love Memorial weekend at Sonoma Raceway in...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at Suzuka in a Porsche 962. It is the 31st (of 35 races) and final win for the 956/962 in Japanese competition (1989). 4 Stirling Moss, driving an Aston Martin DBR2,...
David McKay Keijo Eric “Keke” Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to...
Garie Cooper Jurgen Barth 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967)....
Garrie Cooper Keke Rosberg 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967). 2 Peter Arundell wins a one-car “race” at Monza, Italy. Journalist Richard von Frankenberg had accused Lotus of using an illegal engine in Arundell’s car in a race there a...
Rick Mears Howden Ganley 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do...
Editor Casey Annis moderates a panel discussion on the heyday of Formula 5000 with legends like series champions Brian Redman and Tony Adamowicz, Howden Ganley, John Morton and Shadow team owner Don Nichols. Conducted in the paddock at Laguna Seca during the 2015 Monterey Motorsport Reunion....
The Watkins Glen 6 Hours, on July 21, 1973, served as the final round of that year’s World Sportscar Championship...
Once upon a time in a bar…well, near a bar…I was talking to a couple who had just bought a...
The international Diamond Jubilee Formula Junior celebratory Tour, now on its way to North America, got rolling with five race meetings in New Zealand during the Southern Hemisphere summer. With 40 to 50 cars turning out at each of the five circuits hosting races, a huge impression was made with...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren,...
Back in 1962 a group of retired Grand Prix drivers led by the great Juan Manuel Fangio and Nino Farina...
Some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will gather for a panel discussion in the paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca during next month’s Rolex Monterey Motorpsorts Reunion. The panel lineup currently includes Brian Redman, Vern Schuppan, Tony Adamowicz, John Morton, Howden Ganley and Shadow team owner Don...
New Zealander Howden Ganley competed in 35 Grand Prix events between 1971 and 1974, raced in a number of major...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Howden Ganley For the Historic Formula Junior Diamond Jubilee World Tour (quite some title) it really was the “last lap” of this three-year long series, when they held the final races as part of the 2018 Silverstone Classic. I apologize for returning to the Formula Junior theme again (so soon?)...
Howden Ganley There is an old maxim which says America and Britain are two countries divided by a common language...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons Jovicus “Hill of Jupiter.” Whatever the origin of its name, this hill that overlooks Barcelona’s harbor has been known as Montjuic for more than a thousand years. Now using the...
The Can-Am Reunion Dinner scheduled for the Saturday of Monterey Classic Car Week, August 20 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel,...
Howden Ganley A recent visit to the famous Donington circuit in England, for the launch of a wonderful book about...
There is a small town in Lincolnshire, England, which became the home of not one, not two, but three major racing car manufacturers. Bourne (pop 15,000) a small market town up in “Bomber County” as Lincolnshire was known during WWII (due to the large number of bomber bases built on...