“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau, a number of exceptional cars and drivers have committed to the event. BSWR Patron Sir Stirling Moss and Event Ambassador Derek Bell, MBE, have recently been joined by Grand Marshal...
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum has organized...
Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to...
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...
A shooting star is an astronomical phenomenon which appears suddenly in the night sky, burns brightly for a few seconds...
Could we soon see a return of the famous Nassau Speedweeks? Quite possibly if a group calling itself Bahamas Motorsports...
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...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
Alfonso de Portago Michael Schumacher Photo: Mercedes-Benz 1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...