Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to...
As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau,...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of a new wave of industrial design. Avro Aviation engineer James C. Floyd had come up with the CF 105 Avro Arrow, a 1500-mph delta-winged fighter aircraft, and Bill Sadler had...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
Alfonso de Portago Michael Schumacher Photo: Mercedes-Benz 1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria to being Porsche’s man in the USA, to his involvement in virtually every facet of Penske Racing. Born just before the Second World War in Vienna, Austria, Kainhofer became involved...
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum has organized...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
If ever an event deserved to be revived, it was the Nassau Speed Weeks. Originally held between 1954 and 1966, names like Hill, McLaren, Penske, Gurney and, of course, Stirling Moss feature on the trophies. It was a high-octane end of season “playoff” in the sun between the Americans and...
Could we soon see a return of the famous Nassau Speedweeks? Quite possibly if a group calling itself Bahamas Motorsports...
“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar Championship-winning team of 1959, it seemed reasonable to speak with another racer who worked in that fabled John Wyer-run team, Rex Woodgate. Woodgate is a notoriously detail-oriented mechanic who became...
A shooting star is an astronomical phenomenon which appears suddenly in the night sky, burns brightly for a few seconds...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...