Ralph DePalma Danny Sullivan 2 Indy racer Duke Nalon is born (1922). 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer...
Few racing personalities have been involved in as many capacities as Lew Spencer. From herding Cobras around Sebring to managing...
November 2004 Indy Cars of the 1940s Introduction by Karl Ludvigsen The 1940s are the under-reported years of motor racing, and additions to the existing dearth of material is always welcome. This 128-page soft-cover from the Iconografix series is no exception. It is, as the title suggests, a photographic record...
There’s no middle ground with A.J. Foyt, no compromising your feelings. You either love him or hate him. You either...
While many racecar drivers have earned the title of “living legend,” there are very, very few that can also lay...
March 2007 Birthday Wishes Kudos to you Mr. Annis. Vintage Racecar is ONE FANTASTIC publication!!! Nothing comes close! Your combination of editorials, pictures, engineering and art is unsurpassed. You should be very proud of yourself!!! My subscription started on year 2 or 3 and I’ve never been disappointed!!! I look...
Since the very dawn of motorsport, automobile racing has been governed by rules. The very first motoring competition was the...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
Rick Mears Alain Prost 1 John Surtees drives a Ferrari 312 to victory in the nonchampionship Syracuse Grand Prix in...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started my career, I was like any other driver. I started in single-seater racing cars and wanted to become a Formula One racer, not only that but World Champion! My ladder...
Like Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi is one of the elite. A driver who has won the Formula...
“Dinosaurs,” we called them, ridiculing their bulk, their weight, their mindless loyalty to outmoded dogma. Indy Roadsters; they were rife...
My forty-third stained-glass window turned out to be a very special piece of art. It was commissioned by Jan and Larry Pfitzenmaier of Sonoita, Arizona. Jan and Larry own and race the number 16 “Simonize” Watson roadster, driven to 2nd place in the 1959 Indy 500 by Jim Rathmann. When...
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...
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving a lay-down roadster that was built by Quin Epperly. Actually, in my rookie year—my first year there was 1960—I almost won the race at Milwaukee. I was leading in the...
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...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of the Watson Roadster. The first four Watson Roadsters, of 1956–1958, had a single air inlet and chrome grille, so why the change? Surely it had some advantage. Was it the...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G2 The author gets up to speed on the banking of England’s Rockingham Speedway. Photo: Mike Jiggle...
Alistair Caldwell joined the McLaren team in their early days as a cleaner and ended up as team manager, winning...
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...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The 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. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last...
My father ran in the first NASCAR Cup race in 1949, when I was 11 years old, but I went...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...