McLaren Automotive will return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend, June 23-26, with a celebration of race wins...
I have driven numerous racing cars over my 30 years and many eras of motor sport. I drove in several...
More than $325 million worth of collector cars were hammered sold over the Monterey Car Week Auction Season, with 70 of them bringing in $1 million or more as the market played mostly flat in comparison to last year. Top lot of the weekend, more or less as expected, was...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
• Goodwood has announced provisional dates for its 2016 Festival of Speed and Revival meetings, planning to stage the former on June 23-26, and the latter on September 9-11. Tickets for the two events went on sale Thursday November 5. Goodwood had previously announced the dates for its 74th annual...
McLaren M8 Robin Herd had left and was replaced by Gordon Coppuck, who had worked earlier for the National Gas...
In 1970 New Zealand’s Bruce McLaren died in an accident at Goodwood, UK, while testing his latest Can-Am sports racing...
The Mercedes CLK GTR was once the world’s most expensive production car and it rarely gets the recognition that it deserves. Owning a single CLK GTR is an impressive achievement in itself, but the opportunity to acquire both versions simultaneously is truly exceptional. RM Sotheby’s is set to offer this...
The Players 200. Mosport, June 6, 1964 Bruce McLaren, in the ex-Penske Zerex now with alloy Oldsmobile V8 power, en...
After some 50 years of automobile 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 Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
For the second successive year, Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen will return to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion to meet with guests, sign autographs and drive exhibition laps. Last year, he was demonstrating McLaren’s first-ever world championship car, the legendary M23 that took Emerson Fittipaldi to the 1974 drivers’...
Launched in 1992, the McLaren F1 would go on to revolutionize the supercar industry with many of its core characteristics...
Noted British historic racecar restorers Hall & Hall are offering for sale a 1966 McLaren M2B, the first McLaren Formula...
The theme for Goodwood’s 2016 Festival of Speed, set for the weekend of June 23-26, will be “Full Throttle—The Endless Pursuit of Power,” with the event celebrating the most powerful competition cars and bikes in the history of motor sport. Alongside its central theme, FoS 2016 will also celebrate the...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
Renowned comedian Jay Leno’s passion for McLaren is well-known. With ownership of a black F1 valued at over $20 million and being among the first to receive a P1 almost ten years ago, he recently had the unique opportunity to drive a one-of-a-kind McLaren Speedtail dubbed “Albert”....
There are many racing drivers, a lesser quantity of great racing drivers, and a very small number who transcend mere...
McLaren Automotive has revealed its most ambitious and exacting bespoke livery ever – the astonishingly complex 3-7-59 Theme. An elaborate...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
The team behind the Sonoma Speed Festival is back gearing up for a new motorsports festival, Velocity Invitational. The exciting...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy (1958). 2 Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schutz lead a Porsche 908 1-2-3 finish in the Targa Florio road race in Sicily (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
The McLaren P1 is a remarkable hypercar that has been recognized as a landmark both for McLaren and the development...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s the annual 24-hour auto race near a small town southwest of Paris generated international racing drama like none seen before Ford’s concerted effort to defeat Ferrari at Le Mans actually...