Actor and Racer Paul Newman is said to have gotten the racing bug during the filming of the 1969 Universal...
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
Throughout history, men have always competed to go faster, farther, and higher than others, and during the past century much of this has been done in motor cars. In early days no attention was paid to safety, with numerous fatalities meaning motor sport ranked second only to flying homemade aircraft...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
A grand American figure in motor racing history has quietly left the scene. After battling Parkinson’s Disease for a decade, Teddy Mayer, cofounder of Team McLaren, passed away unexpectedly as he slept at his English home in late January at the age of 73. Born Edward Everett Mayer in Scranton,...
To mark the 100th anniversary of its construction in 1909 and its first 500-mile race in 1911, the Indianapolis Motor...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
Some of the world’s finest classic and antique automobiles will take center stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
Mark Donohue Jean-Pierre Beltoise 2 Juan Pablo Montoya wins the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth Speedway in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (1999). 3 Klaus Ludwig wins the IMSA Camel GT race at Laguna Seca, California, driving a Bayside Porsche 962 (1987). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth, he was a classic all-rounder from the same mold as contemporaries Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, and A.J. Foyt. He started out driving midgets and sprint cars in his...
June 2009 FREIK—the Private Life of the Freikaiserwagen By Rob and Hugh Dunsterville Freik was most definitely not a freak....
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
Jerry Titus Frank Biela Photo: Stefan Warter 1 George Follmer drives a Ford-powered Lotus 70 to victory in the L&M Continental Formula A race at St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada (1970). 2 Multiple Le Mans 24-Hour-race winner Frank Biela is born in Neuss, Germany (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN May 29, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For the first two years of the series it made sense, because both formulae allowed engines of 4,500-cc. After 1951, it made no sense at all, but the 500 was included...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born (1980). 2 The first road races are held through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York. They are also the first post-WWII races held in the United States and the...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore...
With 2009 marking the 87th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, it is the second oldest motor race...
Citing the still-fragile state of the U.S. economy, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that its Centennial Era Concours d’Elegance has been moved back a year, from its previously announced date of June 18–20, 2010 to June 17–19, 2011. The first Indianapolis 500 was held on May 30, 1911, so...
The 1965 Le Mans-winning NART Ferrari 250LM driven by Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory and currently owned by the Indianapolis...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
Paul Newman George Follmer Photo: Pete Luongo 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. It’s the first F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprint car builder and...