When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was...
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
E.D. Martin’s all-conquering Ferrari 315S awaits the start of the Feature Race in April of 1958.Photo: Benita Lane The revised...
Berger drove the Benetton B197 to pole and victory at the 1997 German Grand Prix.Photo: Jim Hatfield The world held...
Sixty years ago was when—for me—the world became modern. Many people will laugh at that; some will understand but have a different date in mind; maybe a few will feel as I do. Pete Lyons The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing coupe is—for me—the first GT car of our contemporary era....
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
During the November 1952 running of Mexico’s fabled Carrera Pan-Americana, the Karl Kling/Hans Klenk Mercedes 300SL makes a pit stop for new tires in the Sierra Madre after Tehuantepec. Note that the windshield has been smashed by hitting an errant buzzard at high speed, and that Klenk is wearing goggles...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Bricklin Company namesake and founder, Malcolm Bricklin. Malcolm Bricklin has more balls than a Christmas tree. Charismatic and effervescent, his...
October 6th, 1966 saw the opening of the 53rd edition of the “Mondial de l’automobile de Paris”, where the new Maserati Mexico made its debut. The Mexico, designed by Vignale, was an exquisite car with sleek and immaculate lines: it was an elegant 2+2 coupé in pure Maserati style, but...
Photo: Bob Jackson In 1962, I was Jim Hall’s mechanic. There are many stories I could tell about the five years...
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry Titus (1928-1970) drove to victory for Ford and Shelby. Ford was tied up at the end of the series with Dodge, and as a result Shelby built this special, one-off...
