The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a century, has passed away at the age of 93. Garage owner and master mechanic Riley was granted one of America’s early Volvo franchises in 1957. “As soon as I drove...
Tazio Nuvolari John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen...
Luigi Villoresi John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra RS500 is homologated for Group A touring car racing (1987). 1 F1...
Alan Jones Tazio Nuvolari 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a practice crash for the German Grand Prix (1964). 1 F1 driver Patrick Depailler is killed in a crash during testing (1980). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Another sports car racing pioneer has left us as Bill Pollack has passed away just nine days after marking his...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to start what would come to be recognized as the defining race of his life. Bruce Kessler Can you describe the main race at Lime Rock in 1957, where you were...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
At the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 25, 1961, John Fitch shared this Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati T61 “Birdcage” with...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the winning Dyson Racing R&S MkIII-Ford in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1997). Become a...
On August 4, 2007, an icon of American racing and my dear friend, John Fitch, turned 90 years old! In...
Readers may recall that last month we brought you the story of John Fitch’s planned attempt to break an existing...
Sports car racing driver, team manager and safety engineer John Fitch has been inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame, along with seven others. Fitch was the first SCCA national champion, in 1951, and won the Argentine Grand Prix in the same year. In the 1952 Mexican Road Race, he...
John Fitch has been named as the honored guest for the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association’s 2010 Elkhart Lake Vintage...
American racing pioneer John Fitch’s contributions to Lime Rock Park, (and sports car racing in general) will be recognized when...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the occasion of his 95th birthday. A number of interesting cars were on display, including the one and only Fitch Phoenix and a beautiful two-tone burgundy Cunningham C-3 Cabriolet (#5233/5441) in which...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
In several sections of this month’s issue, you’ll find coverage of just a small sampling of the constellation of events...
Two months before the end of WWII, an American P-51 Mustang was shot down over Germany. The pilot was Captain John Fitch and he spent the rest of the war as a POW. Ten years later, that same John Fitch teamed up with a German co-driver to drive a German...
The International Motor Racing Research Center has recently been gifted further items from the estate of the late John Fitch,...
Sports car racing legend, engineer and innovator John Cooper Fitch will be the subject of a Center Conversations talk May...
I’ve had a dream, one of the rare ones I remember clearly and can’t stop thinking about. That must mean it had serious meaning for me. So I am moved to share it. Pete Lyons Although the dream itself had nothing to do with racing, I think I will be...
For a “round peg,” John Cooper Fitch fits remarkably “squarely” in the pigeonhole marked “True American Hero.” In his 85...
John Fitch is a genuine American hero, and a survivor. If they made a movie about his life, Jimmy Stewart...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...