We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Pete Lyons Occasionally here you may notice me express disdain for the twisted state modern Formula One has gotten itself...
Bob Bondurant, who led the Shelby American Cobra team’s successful 1965 World Manufacturers Championship effort, and later established one of the leading racing schools in the world, has been named the fifth Legend of Riverside by the Riverside International Automotive Museum. He will be honored by the Museum during its...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
The revered roadsters that wrote Indianapolis 500 history during the 1950s and ’60s will be featured on Legends Day with a celebration of the Speedway’s Roadster Era, all presented by Firestone, on Saturday, May 26, the day before this year’s 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. The day’s activities...
I’ve been associated with many great racecars over the years, and for the most part Indycars. I’m particularly proud of...
You’ll probably get stopped at some point and have to pay off the cops. You will almost certainly have to...
August 2009 Man vs. Machine Dear Editor, With respect to Pete Lyons’s column, “Man? Or Machine?” [VR, March ’09], I get the feeling that Pete Lyons and I must share some similar DNA. For many years, I couldn’t understand why I had gradually lost interest in the current modern racing scene....
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin...
June 2017 Racing to Riverside By Brad R. Leach This book is subtitled: “The Untold Story of Walt Hane and...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story of Alpine and Renault is a culmination of a Sherlock Homes style of research, study and investigative interviews with those luminaries who designed, built, tested, raced and had “hands on”...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
The title of my column reads: “The Fabulous Fifties.” The era is one I know something about. During that time, I raced, rallied, officiated, and was an SCCA Regional Board member. In addition, I shot photos, wrote articles, and had a wide friendship that included some of you. Also, I...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Two of the most competitive drivers during the formative years of the Trans-Am series, Follmer and Jones will be reunited...
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving a lay-down roadster that was built by Quin Epperly. Actually, in my rookie year—my first year there was 1960—I almost won the race at Milwaukee. I was leading in the...
A documentary film that offers an inside look at the Indianapolis 500 through the eyes of the race’s 1963 winner, Parnelli Jones, will premiere at next month’s Sun Valley Film Festival in Idaho. The film was written, produced and directed by the Car Barn Productions team of Annie Walker, Michael...
Lyn St. James Alex Zanardi 3 F1 and sports car racer Andrea de Adamich is born (1941). 3 Two-time CART...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor Mike Jiggle got him to discuss his early years at Lola and going to work at McLaren, as well as his basic design philosophy. In this second installment he speaks...
• The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation has selected motorcycle champion Paul Goldsmith, and veteran car owner Pat Patrick as this...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these two new links take you back in time to a position trackside at two of America’s favorite racing grounds, Watkins Glen (not Kent, Washington as suggested) and Riverside. The first...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3) by a gathering of 15 drivers with an astonishing 26 wins at The Brickyard between them. Some original Indianapolis bricks have been permanently inserted into the start line and the...