All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 First engine ever designed by Ernst Fuhrmann, the Porsche Type 547 (Carrera), runs in Zuffenhausen for the first time (1953). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
There have seldom been races which have been held under such atrocious conditions that they remained in the imagination of...
Karl Kling Mark DonohuePhoto: Hal Crocker 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race at Skarpnack...
Jacky Ickx, sitting in the experimental Ferrari 312B2/F1 “Spazzaneve” (snowplow) at Monza, in August 1972. Mauro Forghieri tried this bodywork configuration as an experimental aerodynamic design, but never used it in competition. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel:...
Some people do; some people don’t. Some people enjoy it; some people don’t. Driving in the rain, that is. Apart...
Jacky Ickx and the smoky Martini Porsche 936 just made it to the end to claim the win for himself,...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo: Peter Collins Where do you start? Society weddings, the jet set racing crowd, brewery heirs, Mangustas, Grand Prix disaster. The De Tomaso story has it all, and the car you...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
The BRM Years Tony Southgate Photo: Pete Austin Last November we began an ongoing series of interviews with Tony Southgate, the...
April 2018 Jackie Oliver prepares to take the Gulf Mirage M2-Ford out for practice prior to the 1969 running of the 1000 Kilometers of the Nürburgring, as co-driver Jacky Ickx looks on at left. They retired in the early laps of the race with suspension problems. Photo courtesy of: THE...
The April 13 RRDC Evening with Jacky Ickx Presented by Firestone was filled with amusing racing stories, heartfelt emotions, mutual...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African could become a Formula One World Champion. Not even their crystal ball, though, could have predicted how: it was when driving a Ferrari 312T4 at Monza, the holiest of holies...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
(From Left to Right): Steve McQueen, Pedro Rodriguez, Masten Gregory, Peter Revson, Mario Andretti.Photos: Hal Crocker That was Mario Andretti’s comment after the drive of his life…an impossible dream. He said so after he had just won the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring for Ferrari in the most incredible nail-biter...
When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the...
As a result of my 1967 win in the Kyalami Nine Hours, in South Africa with Jacky Ickx in the JW Automotive Mirage M1, John Wyer signed us to continue our partnership the following year. Wyer’s 1968 entries were Ford GT40s, splendidly liveried in what became the most iconic team...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing career. Perhaps best remembered for his prowess and speed at the wheel of Otto Zipper’s many Porsches in the ’60s, Patrick also enjoyed racing success in a wide variety of...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
In Mass’ last full year, 1991, he teamed with Jean-Louis Schlesser in this C11 for the Mercedes-Benz WSC team as they shared 7th in the championship. With no less than 32 World Championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports car racers of all...
The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk Motor...
Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several F1 teams, is born (1956). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda president and CEO, is born (1936). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...