I guess the best period in motor racing for me was when I managed to have my first drives in...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport, however, had always fascinated me as a child and I wanted to be involved in some way, shape or form. There were a series of races in South Africa that...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice for the nonchampionship Mexican Grand Prix (1962). 2 The Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California, to announce the formation of the Bud...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left. But we don’t do politics here, just history, so let’s have a look back at interesting times when oval drivers first tried their hands at turning both ways. The big...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
The Earl of March has recently confirmed the theme of the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which is “Hawthorn to...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived a life dominated by motorsport. Whether going to pre-war races with his father, racing himself in F2 or leading the BRM race organization, Tim Parnell has played an integral role...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from...
April 2008 Carlo Demand In Motion and Color By Gary Doyle Due to the volume and prevalence of racing photography...
1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop for 50 years? Answer: two. Let me refine the question a bit. How many manufacturers of only racing cars have been going for 50 years and are still in international...
Former world champion John Surtees today paid tribute to his former teammate Jim Clark, who died 40 years ago today....
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
In 1967, sports prototype racing was going through one of its golden eras, with plenty of entries and a wonderful driver lineup for the world championship series, which consisted of races in North America and throughout Europe. Seven different manufacturers contested the title with five of them winning races that...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar...
Third-time charm! That’s what we Can-Am fans were hoping for 40 Septembers ago. On the first of this month in...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
October 2008 Tiger Tales Dear Editor, I saw Art’s letter in your August issue about the Sunbeam Tiger. In 1964, I did a shoot for the California Sports Car magazine, the continuation magazine that Art and Dick Sherwin started in the ’50s. We were at the Roots Group showroom on Pico...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka...
Phil Hill Biography Overshadowed by his fellow Americans Mario Andretti and AJ Foyt it was Phil Hill who became America’s first World Champion after the death of the popular German driver Wolfgang von Trips. Born in Florida his family would soon move to Santa Monica, California. Hill soon immersed himself...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series....
The French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan using an air-cooled V-8. Jo Schlesser, a 40-year old French driver of modest reputation, was called in when John Surtees decided to stay with his older V12 Honda RA 301....