My forty-third stained-glass window turned out to be a very special piece of art. It was commissioned by Jan and...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had met him only once during the fabulous fifties when he drove a customer’s Devin SS when I was the Devin distributor. We became close friends when I asked him to...
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but also by an unusual name change with his brother Jim…or rather Dick. Jim was underage in 1943 and could not race legally. So, he and his brother exchanged identities, Jim...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G2 The author gets up to speed on the banking of England’s Rockingham Speedway. Photo: Mike Jiggle...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 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 full article is limited to paid...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s dominant international racecar drivers when, in 1965, he set out on a path that select few drivers ever pursue—to build and win in a car of his own making. Back...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts like future Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, double Can-Am Champion Patrick Tambay, Indy 500 winners Danny Sullivan and Eddie Cheever, and FIA-GT Champion Klaus Ludwig. He got to within...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
Jim Clark is remembered for his ability to drive and win in all types of cars and series, Formula 1, Indianapolis, Tasman cars, sports and touring cars including the Lotus Cortina, with which he won the 1964 British Touring Car Championship. In 1966, he took part in the RAC Rally...
1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop...
Respected Indianapolis Crew Chief, Howard Gilbert, passed away on February 4, 2008, at his home in Payson, Arizona. He was...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less than seismic impact in the motor sports world at large. As someone emailed in to SpeedTV’s “Wind Tunnel,” the only reason for many fans to bother talking about IRL’s muffled...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500...
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy, 60 mph was thought an insurmountable barrier; doctors even hypothesized that the human body would be unable to breathe at that speed and, therefore, the driver would surely die. As...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
September 2008 Abarth–The Man, The Machines By Luciano Greggio As outlined in this month’s feature article (pg. 52), over the...
My brother, Jim Hurtubise, started out racing on dirt tracks in California against seasoned drivers like Parnelli Jones and Allen Heath. After “Herk,” as he was known, had done all he could in the West, he worked his way back to “the bull rings” of the Midwest, the heartland of...
Georges Louis Frederic Boillot Biography Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was born in Valentigney, France on August 3rd, 1884 A mechanic...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
Al Stein’s Valvoline Twin Special Hanging on the wall of an auto body repair shop in Berkeley, California, is an aluminum body panel, still with the original paint scheme and the words “Valvoline Twin Special” lettered on one side. It is all that remains of Al Stein’s dream car. Stein...