In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
It’s an extremely complicated question to start answering, because of the different periods and different types of cars. You have to pick between sports cars and F1 cars—you have such different categories. I admire innovation. One of the most innovative cars was the early Chaparral with glass fiber monocoque chassis....
McLaren MP4/4 Car: McLaren MP4/4 / Engine: Honda RA168E, 1,494 cc (91.2 cu in), 80° turbocharged V6 / Maker: McLaren /...
Circuit 2011 By Dennis Gray With the relatively recent advent of digital cameras, everyone can now take a great picture…but...
Mario Andretti at speed in his Ferrari 312B with flat-12 engine. Andretti was the race favorite having won the opening round of the Formula One season in South Africa just three weeks prior to the Questor GP.Photo: American Racing Museum For decades, racing fans around the world have continually debated...
The noise and spectacle of the Can-Am Challenge Cup sees a rebirth in 2011. The revival of this iconic series...
The first time I recall sitting in a racing car was as a child at the BRM works at Bourne,...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a March 722 to victory in the European F2 Championship race at Thruxton, England (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
RM Sotheby’s is currently offering a 2014 McLaren P1 which is available for immediate purchase at an undisclosed amount. The...
While best known in current racing circles as the Director of CART’s Indy Lights Series, Roger Bailey has had a long and colorful career in motorsport that includes working as a mechanic for teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Cooper. John R. Wright sat down with Bailey during the CART Toronto...
Team McLaren McLaren started the 1973 Formula One season with drivers Denny Hulme and Peter Revson piloting the soon to...
A field of nearly 40 Can-Am cars is expected to be in action at the 2016 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as stepping stones to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, Formula Two and Formula Three were consolidated into Formula Junior, but with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
In 1994, I became Technical Director for RML Ltd., which was competing in the RAC British Touring Car Championship. John...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy eight years later. It was September 3, 1967, at Road America, when his Can-Am team began a five-year run of dominance in the fastest kind of road racing the world...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a...
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering will once again grace the picturesque fairways of Quail Lodge & Golf Club with more than...
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 five liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body,...
As I sit down to write this month’s column, Halloween quickly approaches. The stores are jammed to the gunnels with...
A 1995 McLaren F1 GTR ‘BMW Art Car’ will headline a new Artcurial auction to be held July 9th, 2010...
Former F1, sports car and F5000 driver Peter Gethin died on December 5 after a lengthy illness. Gethin is remembered for a number of stirring races including his famous victory in the 1971 Italian Grand Prix at Monza for BRM, considered to be the closest finish ever in a Grand...
Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach Auctions set a record auction price on August 14, 2021, fetching $20.465 million for a...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
May 2017 • Sir Jack Brabham, Australia’s three-time F1 World Champion, is to be honored by his homeland with a special commemorative 50¢ coin struck by the Royal Australian Mint. The coin features a likeness of Sir Jack and the Brabham BT19-Repco with which, in 1966, he became the only...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many...
A few weeks ago McLaren released their new sports car to the public. It’s not fair to really call it...
McLaren Special Operations (MSO) has completed a unique new McLaren P1 GTR project to mark the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s maiden Formula 1 World Championship. The McLaren P1 GTR is liveried in the iconic colours of then-sponsor Marlboro — synonymous with McLaren for more than 20 years — as...