Lime Rock Park, CT August 2–3, 2007 Blasting down the front straight, Nick Grewal in his Lotus 11.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco...
Lime Rock Park, CT August 31–September 3, 2007 Herb Wetanson’s Royale RT 3-4 leads Tom Malloy’s Lola T-70.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco...
Those looking for vintage photographs frequently contact me. During the fifties, my partner, Dick Sherwin, and I published a short-lived magazine called the Sports Car Journal. To cover events, we took many photographs. I have ended up with an archive of hundreds of negatives and have used a number of...
Lime Rock Park, Connecticut October 5–6, 2007 Ven Fonte’s Austin Healey 100M is followed by Stu Forer’s Jaguar XK120.Photo: Walter Pietrowicz...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden...
The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Formula 5000 in 2008. The first event will be held May 30–June 1, 2008, at Infineon Raceway, in conjunction with the Wine Country Classic. The second race...
On paper, Lime Rock Park seems to be an easy track to learn. There are only seven corners and the...
A new chapter in the history of Lime Rock Park was written in April, as the track celebrated its groundbreaking...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
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On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see...
As a way to thank local resident and international racing driver Sam Posey for his lifelong contributions to Lime Rock Park, track owner Skip Barber gave Sam the honor of driving the first laps around the newly repaved and reconfigured circuit when it officially opened on July 4th. “I feel...
From May 27 to July 3, Lime Rock Park underwent a major transformation. Not only was the original 7-turn configuration...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely 50 years since I exposed the negative at Lime Rock, made a print in my dad’s darkroom, and air-mailed it overseas to England’s Autosport magazine. When we duly received our...
Lime Rock Park, Sharon, Conn. August 30-September 1, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
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Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can keep gnawing on you ’til finally you just gotta explode? That’s what I’ve been nursing ever since a NASCAR telecast last year, when I heard announcer Darrell Waltrip say something...
Lime Rock Park’s preparations for the 28th Annual Vintage Festival on the traditional Labor Day weekend are well underway. Buzz...
Motor racing’s senior statesman, 92-year-old John Fitch, is being threatened with the loss of his home near Lime Rock where...
There is a man who is not only unknown to the general public but also to much of the racing community. He was, however, of vital importance to modern American road racing. With the exception of those who organize races, he is virtually anonymous. Jim Haynes, however, is my own...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
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Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man...
When asked by my good friend Rick Roso to write a piece on how “to do” one of my favorite...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand in most of motor racing’s varied formulae, and with a number of famous names of the track. He has probably forgotten more about the sport than many care to remember....