If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
Streets of Long Beach, CA April 7-8, 2017 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 awesome discounts on...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use...
Young Brazilian Nelson Piquet drove his Gordon Murray-designed Brabham BT49-Cosworth to his first Formula One victory in Long Beach on...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive the 1979 March 79V Super Vee that Dennis Firestone drove to that year’s USAC “Mini-Indy” championship. I have a certain affinity for Super Vees, both in having raced a Ralt...
Subscriber only Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix. # 4...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives a Ferrari Tipo 118 to victory in the 671-mile Tour of Sicily (1955). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
On Thursday, April 7, two multiple-race winners of the streets of Long Beach—Alex Zanardi and Bill Auberlen—will be inducted into the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame, a collaborative celebration with the City of Long Beach and Grand Prix Association of Long Beach. “Alex Zanardi and Bill Auberlen are icons...
This Saturday’s Japanese Classic Car Show at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, will feature several historic Mazdas, including...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...
Long Beach, CA April 11-13, 2003 The 1968 Ferrari 312 of Todd Morici is chased by the Williams FW08 of...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding torch, build their own chassis, go out to test it, and then win races with it. They are Jack Brabham and Chuck Daigh. I put Chuck in the same category...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
Two long-time veterans of racing on the streets of Long Beach—Willy T. Ribbs and Oriol Servia—will be honored by induction...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo to victory in the Grand Prix of Monaco (1934). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a...
This month’s Web site is essentially a photo album, by a fan for other fans, and features a variety of...
Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that included a Champ Car round and the Imperial City Bank Historic Grand Prix. Rick Knoop’s 1979 Tyrrell 009, the ex-Didier Pironi Candy-sponsored car, dominated practice and the race but only...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing...
The sound of a full-field of Formula One cars will once again reverberate through the streets of downtown Long Beach...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
Nearly two dozen cars from one of racing’s more golden ages took to the streets of Long Beach last weekend as part of the Historic Motor Sports Association’s Can-Am Challenge, which brought high-horsepower racing to the fabled seaside city streets as part of the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long...