Nelson Ledges is a fun, fast and reasonably flat racetrack in northeast Ohio, originally raced as a dirt road course...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
As a packed house assembled at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday morning, the hours leading up to the 100th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing were occupied with the traditional honoring of the past. A parade of Camaro Pace Cars graced with “500” winners preceded a stream of...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style” cars powered by 5-liter, normally aspirated, V-8 engines. In its heyday, in the mid-1970s, F5000 attracted big-name drivers like Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, Sr., Jody Scheckter, and Brian Redman, piloting...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives...
Mario Andretti was presented with the first annual Spirit of Competition Award at dedication ceremonies for the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia on November 12. The dedication ceremony was presided over by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Andretti’s award was presented by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil,...
The annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner on the eve of the 44thToyota Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrated an...
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending...
French Grand Prix; Dijon-Prenois, July 1,1979. Mario Andretti with the unhappy Lotus 80. It was not a success, and the team subsequently reverted to the Lotus 79. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203)...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country,...
Masten Gregory Bob WollekPhoto: Porsche 2 Jackie Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand 9 Hour Race at Kyalami, South Africa (1968). 4 Sportscar racer Bob Wollek is born (1943). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Richard Petty Antonio Ascari 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for Team Penske’s first...
February 2018 Mario Andretti: A Life in Pictures By Mario Donnini The latest in author Donnini’s series of “Life in Pictures” reflections on prominent racers and events is devoted to the 1978 F1 World Champion and four-time U.S. National Indycar Champion Mario Andretti. Mario’s story should be familiar to most...
October 2017 Matra Racing DVD, The Rebirth Many years ago I was drawn to the vibrancy of the Matra pit...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars driving a Bugatti (1928). 3 Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Jean-Pierre Jarier drive a Matra M670 to victory in the 6-hour endurance race at Watkins Glen, New York (1974). Become a Member &...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. From this particular view, however, what you see all seems so matter-of-fact and that’s-just-the-way-you-do-it simple as Chip Robinson guides the Group 44 Jaguar XJR-5 around the circuit’s...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin Toward the end of my first period with Shadow, things weren’t working out too well, money...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly but don’t make it to the grid, and then they disappear. Thanks to historic racing and car collecting fever, however, a number have managed to rise from the ashes. VR...
Mario Andretti will serve as the honorary head judge for the third annual Celebration of Automobiles, scheduled for Saturday, May...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first world driver’s championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...