I can think of very few businesses—aside from magazine publishing—where the odds are more stacked against you than being a...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar. The Concours, of course, sprang up in association with the original Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races in 1950, and the feature contest of that first meeting was won by...
The “Ferrari at 24 Heures du Mans” exhibition opened at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, to celebrate 70 years of...
The 70th anniversary of Porsche’s debut and class victory at the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans was celebrated on...
Tom Havlasek wanted to paint a “psychedelic” 917 because he’d already done the Gulf, Martini and Salzburg liveries, some more than once. His goal is to have a collection of all the 917 liveries painted, and so one day he awoke feeling like painting a “Hippie”. Thoughts of that car...
Contrary to what many may believe, the first time I drove a Porsche 917 was when I first sat in one to qualify for the 1969 Le Mans 24 Hours. There were three 917s entered for the race: the privately owned John Woolfe car, the Rolf Stommelen/Kurt Ahrens car, and...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
After one hundred years of providing some of the finest motor racing on the planet, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest(ACO)...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a single target, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was an effort that was immensely successful, and having done it once, Jaguar waited for a period of years and...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
I don’t think there has ever been a car that has captured the public’s imagination more than the Jaguar E-Type....
Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or drag racing of the time. It was also different from previous decades or those that came after. First of all, it was an amateur sport. But unlike most amateur sports—except...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
Le Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France July 10–11, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) 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...
Le Mans, France June 14, 2003 Overall winner Willie Green at the wheel of his 1971 Ligier JS3.Photo: Greg P....
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing at Silverstone, and there was something about it that somehow encapsulated the excitement of motor racing and what it could be about. Peter SutcliffePhoto: Mike Jiggle Upon leaving school I...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
Championship-winning team owner Alex Job (above) is ceasing his team’s professional racing operations and will instead focus upon its historic...
Five of these cars were built for racing in 1938—one uniquely for Le Mans—essentially derived from a road-going version of Alfa’s Grand Prix cars. They had very slippery bodies created by Touring of Milan, and featured independent suspension all around, as well as a rear frame that allowed the use...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started...
Groupe Renault displayed four historic endurance racing prototypes (above, photo courtesy of Renault) at this year’s Retromobile Show in Paris, February 7-11, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alpine’s overall win in the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. Not only was the winning prototype, Renault Alpine A442B, on...
