If there are so many of us desperately searching for our old racing cars, why in the heck are we...
Al Holbert—winner at Daytona, Sebring, and many times at Le Mans; Peter Gregg—4 times winner at Daytona; and Jim Busby—2...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
I can think of very few businesses—aside from magazine publishing—where the odds are more stacked against you than being a racecar manufacturer. Your product is multifaceted and technologically complicated, yet you have usually less than 12 months available to go from new design to finished product. Production requires expensive and...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of green machines since I saw my first Jaguar. And MG. Triumph. Morgan. Lotus. Aston Martin. Austin-Healey. Bentley. Lister. Allard. Cooper. Lola. Jensen. Turner. Elva. Sunbeam. Singer. TVR. AC—as a youth...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
The Lola T70 certainly had a rich and storied racing career. This ex-Foyt T70 is seen here doing battle during...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again king of Formula 5000, having claimed victory in three of the five F5000 Drivers Association revival races to secure the 2011 title. Driving the same 1969 Eagle Mark 5-Chevy he...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started another of Porsche’s amazing periods of domination, this time in long-distance racing in the Group C and IMSA categories. Having decided that they wanted to win races outright rather than...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
Tazio Nuvolari John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of the first round of its 2020 revival racing series at...
One of the most memorable motor races I have ever seen was broadcast from the 1959 Easter Monday Goodwood Meeting and it was for 1100-cc sports cars. For three years, the class had been dominated by the Lotus Eleven, but the top three spots on the grid were filled by...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things get a little stale, or as a response when it is perceived that the public is losing interest. Other times it’s driven by sponsors...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher As historic racers, to some extent our “Holy Grail” is to find a racecar with real, documented...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...