The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
This site bills itself as “a celebration of motorsport,” and that just about says it all. Now in its fifth...
I recently beheld a holy icon of auto racing called the Bothwell Peugeot. Why it is called that I will explain later, but first I need to tell you a remarkable story that will make real the significance of this issue’s feature car. The event happened more than 100 years...
• RM Auctions’ February 18–19, Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale generated more than $9.1 million with 100 percent of all...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund – an all-new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only 501(c)(3) non-profits – to close out the funding required to get Dan Gurney’s legendary Lotus 29/1 back on the racetrack. The IMS Museum’s Restoration department is getting ever closer to...
On Wednesday, May 22, Cummins unveiled all five, fully-restored Cummins-powered racecars in front of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. To...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar Series Championships. It’s a ride Dario Franchitti took from 1996 until 2013. On the way Dario, born in Bathgate, West Lothian on May 19, 1973, and whose family has profound...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
Just as we went to press last month, we heard the tragic news of Dan Wheldon’s fatal accident in the season-ending Indycar race at Las Vegas. While I didn’t know Wheldon—or even follow his career very closely—I found his death profoundly saddening. Not to sound callous, but I was a...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
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,...
Harry A. Miller Bobby Allison 1 Dan Gurney drives a Weslake Ford-powered Eagle to victory in the USAC Championship race...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
David McKay Keijo Eric “Keke” Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies...
The only time I ever met Eddie Cheever was one weekend when we were at the Hockenheim circuit, in Germany, for the 1979 Formula Two race. He was a tall 21-year-old American who had lived in Rome for much of his early life and spoke immaculate Italian. I felt very...
Hero is far too modest a word to describe Eddie Rickenbacker. Racing driver, World War 1 ace, Medal of Honor...
Eldon Rasmussen Eldon Rasmussen was the second Canadian (after Billy Foster) to race in the Indianapolis 500 in the modern...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula 1 World Championship (twice) and the CART title with a record in both—that reads like any self-respecting Walter Mitty’s wish list. He won 14 Grands Prix—not to mention non-title “oddments”...
Emerson Fittipaldi, double Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and 1989 U.S. Indycar National Champion, will be the...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley has passed away at the age of 88. Broadley was one of the early players the post-war British racing car industry, and after his Mk1 sports racer convinced him to give up his own driving career to focus on being a constructor, his Lola designs...
You could have been forgiven if you thought the racing world were coming to an end on April 12th. That...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that renowned engine builder Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr. died Saturday, Nov. 7, in Crawfordsville, he was 89 years old. Meyer will be remembered as one of the most accomplished engine builders in Indianapolis 500 history, as well as the son of Louis Meyer, the...