Thanks to the Ice Age, we were given the Bonneville Salt Flats upon which thousands of land speed racers have...
The holy grail of land speed records resides in the vast solitude of a formerly thriving prehistoric lake. 14,000 years...
The National Motor Museum has launched the Sunbeam 1000hp Restoration Campaign on the anniversary of Major Henry Segrave’s Land Speed Record on March 29, to enable its colossal V12 aero engines to run again. Working together with Hampshire-based Brookspeed Automotive, the campaign aims to raise £300k to complete the restoration...
“Mephistopheles,” the Land Speed record-breaking Fiat, was one of the most fearsome of the aero-engined specials popular in the 1920s....
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver Arrows” (1934). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
On September 28, 1929, Mario Umberto “Baconìn” Borzacchini, at the wheel of a Maserati Tipo V4, set the world land...
Dubbed “Challenger 2,” this twin-Hemi-powered streamliner holds the certified record run as the fastest naturally aspirated, piston-powered vehicle in history—an...
Alfonso de Portago Michael Schumacher Photo: Mercedes-Benz 1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the Nassau Tourist Trophy race driving a NART Ferrari 275 GTB/C (1965). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Bob Osiecki’s winged wonder Mad Dog IV, which shattered the international closed-course speed record at Daytona International Speedway in 1961,...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital...
Karl Kling Jim Clark 1 Lloyd “Lucky” Casner drives a Ferrari Testa Rosa to victory in a race at Opa-Locka, Florida. (1959). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Bobby Rahal A.J. Foyt 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 6 Indy 500 winner Pat Flaherty...
The fastest vehicles in the world will be featured throughout 2018 at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in...
Donald Campbell’s slippery Bluebird-Proteus CN7 speeds into the distance on its way to establishing a new world record speed of 403.10 mph (648.73 kph) on Lake Eyre, Australia on July 17, 1964. This original artwork, produced in acrylic, pen and ink and color pencils on 24-inch x 10.5-inch watercolor paper...
The National Motor Museum’s Land Speed Record breaking 1920 Sunbeam 350hp has been fitted with a replacement gearbox to match...
Great Britain’s National Motor Museum has opened a multi-media display of four legendary British Land Speed Record cars as part...
The Napier-Campbell Bluebird II that Malcolm Campbell used to set a world land speed record in 1927 will complete a...
Jackie Oliver Nigel Mansell 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a crash during practice for...
Emerson Fittipaldi Chris Amon Oscar Koveleski Jo Siffert 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 Bobby Ball, at the wheel of an Offenhauser-powered Kuzma, wins the AAA Championship race on the dirt track in San Jose, California (1952). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies...
My love of motorsport is more a love of speed rather than racing, although it could be considered as a...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first Formula One World Championship, in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 2 Craig Breedlove sets a new Land Speed Record in the Spirit of America Sonic 1 at Bonneville by running 555.48 mph/888.76...
Robert Benoist Björn Waldegård 3 Teo Fabi wins the Mid-Ohio CART race. Only CART win for engine supplier Porsche and...
Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
Texas professional and historic racer Charles Nearburg has a long and diversified motorsport resume. At the profession level, he’s competed in everything from Super Vee and Toyota Atlantic to Le Mans and Champ cars, while even breaking the Land Speed Record for piston-powered, wheel-driven vehicles at 414.316 mph along the...
With the prospect of landing a man on the moon, the American public was captivated by all things “jet-powered” in...
Billing itself as “the largest selection of vintage racing photos on the Internet,” Dale LaFollette’s Vintage Motorphoto is a resource...
During the first half of the Twentieth Century Fageol Motors and the later Fageol Twin Coach Company were innovators in the American truck and bus industries. Founded by the brothers Rollie, William, Frank and Claude Fageol, the company revolutionized the bus industry with a low center of gravity, unibody construction,...