The 1969 Trans Am Championship-winning Penske Sunoco Camaro Z28 driven by Mark Donohue to a win at Riverside Speedway on...
This California-built dune buggy tells an extraordinary story that brings together an auto racing legend, a surprising but thoughtful gift...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power, finished third behind the Lolas of Jody Scheckter and Brian Redman. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203)...
Kirk F. White, consummate enthusiast and partner with Roger Penske when the pair entered a Ferrari 512S for Mark Donohue...
Author Brock Yates once described Judy Stropus as a “racing personality,” since her career in motorsports has covered a gamut...
For the first time since opening its new gallery in 2016, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum will present a specially curated exhibition of auto racing art, highlighting the work of the late John Orfe. Born in Philadelphia, Orfe began a life-long love affair with motor racing after seeing his first...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
David Donohue has been named Grand Marshal of this year’s Savannah Speed Classic, scheduled for the weekend of October 27-29 on the Grand Prize of America road course on Hutchinson Island in Savannah, Georgia. The Speed Classic is the opening event of the annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival &...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta bikes in 2010.Photo: Roger Dixon Mark Donohue talked of “the unfair advantage,” the way in which a driver with an engineering background was always one step ahead of his competitors....
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than...
Cars from the SCCA’s legendary Can-Am series will be in the spotlight at this year’s inaugural Monterey Spring Classic, scheduled for the weekend of May 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The unlimited, big-bore series first raced at the Central California circuit in 1966, when Phil Hill registered the only...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
On August 6, 2016, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia will host a tribute to Penske Racing with Karl Kainhofer and Gordon Kirby, author of the recently released Racemaker Press book Penske’s Maestro about Kainhofer’s time with the team, as well as many other members from the team’s history....
Despite the weather, the IROC Camaro proved capable on both the oval track at Rockingham and Silverstone’s club circuit. Photo: Pete Austin...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I was given a rare opportunity to drive one of the ultimate...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his Shadow race team, my brief was not only to design a Formula One challenger, but also to work on a new sports racing Can-Am car, the DN2. Shadow had competed...
Denny Hulme Gianpiero Moretti 1 Gober Sosebee, driving a Chrysler, wins the NASCAR Grand National race at Hayloft Speedway in...
We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...
Jim Travers, who first rose to prominence along with his partner Frank Coon as the “Whiz Kids” behind Bill Vukovich’s...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
The fifth global gathering of Porschephiles, Rennsport Reunion V, took place before a record crowd of some 57,531 under sunny skies at California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca last weekend, with more than 300 vintage Porsches from all over the world assembled to celebrate the marque while participating in seven race...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada....
The road was as straight as the crow flies without any trace of the slightest change of scenery. Driving down the long unwinding highway, in the late summer of 2013, my mind had the tendency to wander. Time was passing with the same speed of the desert tortoise I saw...
