Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
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...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN May 29, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
June 2009 FREIK—the Private Life of the Freikaiserwagen By Rob and Hugh Dunsterville Freik was most definitely not a freak....
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...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in...
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...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
Some of the world’s finest classic and antique automobiles will take center stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
To mark the 100th anniversary of its construction in 1909 and its first 500-mile race in 1911, the Indianapolis Motor...
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,...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
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...
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
Actor and Racer Paul Newman is said to have gotten the racing bug during the filming of the 1969 Universal...
David McKay Keijo Eric “Keke” Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to victory in the sports car race at Welkom, South Africa (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Al Stein’s Valvoline Twin Special Hanging on the wall of an auto body repair shop in Berkeley, California, is an...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
Georges Louis Frederic Boillot Biography Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was born in Valentigney, France on August 3rd, 1884 A mechanic by training he began automobile racing in 1908. He went on to join drivers Paul Zuccarelli and Jules Goux to help create a novel range of racing cars as part...
My brother, Jim Hurtubise, started out racing on dirt tracks in California against seasoned drivers like Parnelli Jones and Allen...
September 2008 Abarth–The Man, The Machines By Luciano Greggio As outlined in this month’s feature article (pg. 52), over the...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
