Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874,...
July 2017 Porsche 914 – The Racing History By Roy Smith Writing about a subject is relatively easy when there...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the keys to enjoying the performance available from Lola’s first venture into Group 7 competition. Photo: Roger Dixon If there was a racing car that most of the great and the good...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley has passed away at the age of 88. Broadley was one of the early players...
Hall of Famer Jim McElreath passed away last Thursday, in his hometown of Arlington, Texas, at the age of 89. Already a wily veteran when he made his first Indianapolis 500 start in 1962, McElreath impressed observers by qualifying 7th and running 2nd in the early going, having passed the...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than most young men after his father passed away when he was a pre-teen. Because he had to help keep the family afloat financially, he went to work as a gofer...
Two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi (above, Roger Dixon photo), who also won a pair of Indy 500s and...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
Former Super Vee champion Herm Johnson has passed away at the age of 63. After winning the SCCA National Championship in Super Vee at the 1976 Runoffs, Johnson moved into the professional ranks, contesting both the SCCA’s road-circuit-based Bosch/VW Super Vee championship and USAC’s oval-centric Mini Indy series, winning nine...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
Many were the similarities shared by young American racer Bobby Marshman and the Scottish Legend Bobby Marshman Photo: IMS Colin Chapman...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first Formula One World Championship, in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 2 Craig Breedlove sets a new Land Speed Record in the Spirit of America Sonic 1 at Bonneville by running 555.48 mph/888.76...
Karl Kling David Brown 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser will be the guest of honor at the 22nd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 10-12, 2017. Growing up in a racing family meant that becoming a racing driver was simply the natural progression of his life, and Al Unser made the...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
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Formula 1: All the Races, 1950-2015 By Roger Smith With the Formula One World Championship celebrating its 65th year and 935 races by the concluding race of last season—the Abu Dhabi GP in November, 2015—some fans may be asking where and when did it all begin? This third edition of...
My wife and I traveled back to Indianapolis for the “500” to take part in the vintage race portion of...
The schedule for the 2016 Pebble Beach Classic Car Forum, presented by AIG and TDC, has just been announced, and...
The world of Formula One enjoyed a jolt of much needed excitement during the recent Spanish Grand Prix, when young Max Verstappen became the youngest driver to ever win a Grand Prix—at the tender age of 18. Verstappen can now add this F1 landmark to another he earned last year...
The Historic Vehicle Association (HVA) has announced that the Marmon Wasp (above, Chris Graythen/gettyimages photo, courtesy of HVA) that won...
McLaren Automotive will return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend, June 23-26, with a celebration of race wins...
As a packed house assembled at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday morning, the hours leading up to the 100th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing were occupied with the traditional honoring of the past. A parade of Camaro Pace Cars graced with “500” winners preceded a stream of...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...