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January 2006 The Paddy Hopkirk Story By Bill Price From humble beginnings with an Austin 7 in his native Northern Ireland, Paddy Hopkirk was destined to reach the pinnacle of success in European rallying and racing during the 1960s. Starting with some success driving a split-window VW Beetle, Hopkirk soon...
Pete Lyons 2006 already! Those mileposts are just whizzing by, aren’t they? I feel like I’m riding up Pikes Peak...
Billy Krause started his racing career driving midgets on California oval dirt tracks. He went on to race his own...
April 2006 Delage Styling and Design By Richard S. Adatto and Diana E. Meredith Enthusiasts can finally enjoy a book written in English about the historic French Delage marque, which manufactured road and racecars from 1929 to 1953. The book provides an account of the beginnings of the company founded...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
Robert Benoist Mika Hakkinen 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
The Glover Trophy; Goodwood, April 2, 1956. One of Klemantaski’s great shots: Stirling Moss in his private Maserati 250F really...
March 2007 Racing in the Rain By John Horsman The name John Horsman may not be a household name in...
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a controlled, calculating driver, a ruthless opponent, ferocious in exploiting his adversaries’ weaknesses and was, of course, immensely fast. As a man, he could be charming, had a sardonic sense of...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
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...
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Rick Mears Alain Prost 1 John Surtees drives a Ferrari 312 to victory in the nonchampionship Syracuse Grand Prix in Italy (1966). 2 The Junior Car Club holds its first high-speed trials at Brooklands in England. Of the 48 entries, 22 win gold medals and 5 win silver medals (1925)....
The 1957 season was Juan Manuel Fangio’s swan song. With four World Championship victories under his belt, Fangio rejoined the...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well as tragic to see how it happened. Interesting in that a lot of circumstances had to come together; tragic in that it involved the death of a good friend. First,...
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Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most...
From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a diverse racing career. Mike Jiggle sat down with the British Champion to learn more about his fascinating racing life. Looking at the records, I have read that you started in...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had met him only once during the fabulous fifties when he drove a customer’s Devin SS when I was the Devin distributor. We became close friends when I asked him to...
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