The annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner on the eve of the 44thToyota Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrated an...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th annual Road Racing Drivers Club Dinner at the Long Beach Hilton on Thursday April 12, the eve of this year’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Texan Rutherford got his...
One week after the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, the racing world experienced another tragic weekend, this time in France,...
August 2017 Datsun vs. Ferrari Dear Editor, Read with some amusement your comment on the similarities between the Daytona and the 240Z. Couldn’t help thinking about Rhod Gainer a character from the New Zealand comedy, Small Poppies. He spent five years turning his 240Z into a 275 GTB/4. Become a...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport ever, counterbalancing the equally potent combination of Ford and Carroll Shelby. Together, Hall and Musser, along with their teams of brilliant engineers and technicians, produced some of the most famous...
March 2017 The 12 Hours of Sebring; Sebring, April 1, 1967. The Chaparral 2D was entered by Jim Hall for...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken...
News emerged late last week that prominent racing entrepreneur Carl Haas had died on June 29, at age 86, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Tributes poured in from around the world with the news, as Haas had been a major player in both the American and international racing communities for...
It started with a phone call from the photographer/journalist Bernard Cahier. He said, “Carl Haas has a problem. Brian Redman...
A 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, chassis no. 0510 M, that was successfully raced in period by three top American...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I was given a rare opportunity to drive one of the ultimate iterations of the Can-Am car, the championship-winning Shadow DN4. As you’ll also read, the thought of driving this car scared the crap out of me! Over the past 20 years...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chaparral’s stunning win in the 1965 12 Hours of Sebring, Jim Hall II, son of Chaparral creator Jim Hall, will climb behind the wheel of his father’s Chaparral 2 for a series of exhibition laps prior to this year’s running of the Florida endurance...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbrau-sponsored Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
François Cevert Eddie Rickenbacker 1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies in Nice, France, at age 83 (1984). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the British Grand Prix at Donington, the last race of the 750kg racing formula (1937)....
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Tall Texan Tales Dear Editor, Your excellent June issue included Pete Lyons’ review of the happenings while Jim Hall was honored during...
1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus Cars. In just nine short years, Colin Chapman’s designs had evolved from an Austin 7-based trials special with a plywood and alloy body, to a sophisticated spaceframe design in what...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that...
Chaparral creator Jim Hall was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club during the 4th annual RRDC Dinner at the...
The finned Cunningham D-Types of Walt Hansgen and Sherwood Johnston, wait with Duncan Forlong’s AC/Bristol and Curtis Attaway’s XK-120.Photo: Bob Schroeder Over the years Texas has seen its share of oilmen who were actively involved in sports car racing. One of them was Dallas resident Samuel Allen Guiberson, who was...