Le Mans, 1960. You can imagine the scene. The coming decade was cresting the ’50s into oblivion. The vast high-speed...
Although my home was near to the Zandvoort circuit in Holland, my family had nothing to do with the motor...
Le Mans, France June 14, 2003 Overall winner Willie Green at the wheel of his 1971 Ligier JS3.Photo: Greg P. Johnson Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at Le Mans over 50 years ago, has died. It is little known, but due to a fact-finding visit to Maserati, initiated by John Wyer, he didn’t see his cars cross...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
David’s repeated defeats of Goliath this summer—American Le Mans Series victories by Porsche’s RS Spyder over Audi’s much bigger and...
Gaston Chevrolet Alan JonesPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP to clinch his first Formula One World Championship at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 2 F1 champion Alan Jones born (1946). Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads,...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing sports...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle Neville Hay is a great communicator and over many years has provided the commentary at race...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
A sudden snarl under my elbow, the mighty baritone of a big, twin-cam six with open pipes. Then a flash of pale green: four bold, beautifully teardrop-shaped fenders. It’s an Aston! No – the Aston! The very Aston Martin DBR1 that won Le Mans in 1959! Knifing through traffic here...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it crashes. A similar philosophy to that of the bespectacled Masten Gregory, who often shocked fellow competitors and spectators alike by standing up and leaping from his troubled cars, once or...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well as tragic to see how it happened. Interesting in that a lot of circumstances had to come together; tragic in that it involved the death of a good friend. First,...
The concept of the annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner in Long Beach was expanded this year to recognize the...
Whether or not most of us realize it, a most unusual man is among us. Until the late ’50s, he...
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with USAC, which had taken over Indy car racing from the AAA. USAC’s Duane Carter was interested because he wanted Indy car races in Italy (Monza), Germany (Avus), and France (Monthlery)....
Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, six-time 24 Hours of Sebring winner and 2013 FIA World Endurance champion Tom...
The first decade of the 24-Hours of Le Mans was virtually dominated by Bentley. The famed cars from Crewe won...
What if…? It’s a question that has dominated the history of the XJ13, a prototype built by Jaguar in 1966 in a quest to continue the marque’s legendary run of success in the Le Mans 24 Hours. Powered by a new quad-cam, 5-liter V12, the XJ13 was Jaguar’s first mid-engined car...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Robin DonovanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Unlike many other Le Mans drivers, I didn’t ever sleep during the whole 24 hours. Adrenalin...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its third New York sale, entitled ICONS, set for December 6 at Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters, will present a pair of Le Mans racing legends from two of the world’s most revered marques: a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione and a 1952 Jaguar...
