Pedro Rodriguez A.J. Foyt 1 FIA declares there can be sponsorship on cars participating in racing they sanction, provided the...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf Porsche 917K he shared with Jo Siffert finishes behind the Pedro Rodriguez/Leo Kinnunen team car which he also co-drove late in the race (1970). 2 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
A.J. Foyt Pedro Rodriguez 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first to bear the title and we still have a French Grand Prix, therefore it must be the world’s oldest race, right? I disagree and nominate the Indianapolis 500. The 500...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
1970 Porsche 908/3 The author puts the 908/3 through its paces on Pierre Bardinon’s private Mas Du Clos circuit in central France.Photo: Peter Collins In the early 1980s, Andrea de Cesaris was taking journalists around Silverstone in a turbocharged Group C Lancia, asking if you wanted a “medium or fast”...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host Strada Corsa Houston on the weekend of May 5-7, 2017, when enthusiasts of all...
Some people do; some people don’t. Some people enjoy it; some people don’t. Driving in the rain, that is. Apart...
The Daytona Continental (3 Hours) Race; Daytona, February 17, 1963. Pedro Rodriguez in the N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 250 GTO leads Skip Hudson’s Shelby American Cobra out of the infield loop. Rodriguez won by a wide margin while Hudson retired. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had...
Pedro Rodriguez Peter Ryan 2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash...
(From Left to Right): Steve McQueen, Pedro Rodriguez, Masten Gregory, Peter Revson, Mario Andretti.Photos: Hal Crocker That was Mario Andretti’s comment after the drive of his life…an impossible dream. He said so after he had just won the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring for Ferrari in the most incredible nail-biter...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
Holiday Gift Guide 2009 Oyster Perpetual Datejust II $7,525 41mm, stainless steel case, 18kt white gold fluted bezel, 31 jewel...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport in Cleveland, Ohio (1989). 4 John Zeitler, driving a Zeitler, wins the first ever Formula Super Vee race, held at Lime Rock, Connecticut...
The French Grand Prix, Le Mans, July 2, 1967 The Mexican driver Pedro Rodriguez in the Cooper-Maserati V12. Rodriguez would...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending McLaren Can-Am domination—that may have been one goal of series officials when they scheduled their fourth season, 1969, with nearly twice as many rounds as before. Become a Member &...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his...
Sometime in the rainy wee hours of the recent Rolex 24 at Daytona, a race I find myself covering again after a lapse of, gosh, decades, one of my younger colleagues turned and asked, “So what do you think?” My response wasn’t prepared, but it was instant. “Well, it’s not...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the pinnacle of motorsport…and an untimely death. July 11 marks 31 years since Pedro Rodriguez took part in what a number of writers subsequently called a “meaningless Interseries race” at the...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...