Bob Schroeder, the only Arkansas-born driver to ever participate in a World Championship Formula One event—the 1962 U.S. Grand Prix...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor Mike Jiggle got him to discuss his early years at Lola and going to work at McLaren, as well as his basic design philosophy. In this second installment he speaks...
François Cevert Eddie Rickenbacker 1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding wheelspin and letting the engine breathe a bit during flat-out sprints. Photo: Peter Collins When speaking to Brian Lister, some years ago, I asked him about the secret of his success....
Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in a Gulf Mirage-Ford M1 (1967). 2 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to win the under-two-liter class of the USRRC race at Riverside, California. Jim Hall’s Chaparral wins overall...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Personally, I have driven some really good machines. I had a 917 Porsche that I thought was a truly remarkable car, and a 962, too. The only Indy car I had wished I had been able to race was the turbine car, because it was so dominant when it ran....
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I was given a rare opportunity to drive one of the ultimate...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November in honor of the SCCA’s Trans-American Sedan Championship. “Tribute to Trans-Am” will take place November 12, beginning with a 6:00 p.m. cocktail reception, followed by dinner. Also scheduled is a...
Derek Bell Gaston Chevrolet 2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California,...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken Miles won the GT class and finished 2nd overall, as the Grand Sport driven by Hall, Roger Penske and Hap Sharp finished 3rd overall behind the winning Ferrari 250LM with...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series....
March 2017 The 12 Hours of Sebring; Sebring, April 1, 1967. The Chaparral 2D was entered by Jim Hall for himself, Bob Johnson and Bruce Jennings, but it was a mid-race retirement when the engine went sour. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The passing of any legend will always generate a fresh wave of interest in his or her biographical history, and...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
Jean-Pierre Jarier Jim Hall 2 Giancarlo Baghetti wins the French Grand Prix (1961). 2 Future F1 racer Piers Courage meets his future F1 team owner, Frank Williams (1961). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
February 11, 1962, brings back a very striking memory. I had been married for only eight days, yet for some...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that caper. And a grinning Jim Hall went on to explain that early in his career, when “I was already into the hot-rodding of race cars,” he built a Lister-Chevy with...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the...
A 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, chassis no. 0510 M, that was successfully raced in period by three top American racing stars — Phil Hill, Carroll Shelby and Jim Hall — is being offered for sale at RM Sotheby’s flagship Monterey sale this August 19-20. The car was originally sold...