Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars from 1967 to 1971, during which they won 43 of the series’ 71 races, 23 of them consecutively. It was an astounding performance in which New Zealander Bruce McLaren won...
A.J. Foyt Pedro Rodriguez 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born...
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...
The start of the Monaco Grand Prix remains one of motor racing’s true spectacles, and in this depiction of the opening moments of the 1971 contest through the streets of the Principality, we see the front row of Jackie Stewart’s Tyrrell (#11) and Jacky Ickx’s Ferrari (#4) lighting up their...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his BRM P153 into the Station Hairpin. He would ultimately finish 6th. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had...
“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, (1974). 2 Land Speed Record setter John Cobb is born in Esher, Surrey, England (1899). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Some people do; some people don’t. Some people enjoy it; some people don’t. Driving in the rain, that is. Apart...
(From Left to Right): Steve McQueen, Pedro Rodriguez, Masten Gregory, Peter Revson, Mario Andretti.Photos: Hal Crocker That was Mario Andretti’s...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the winning Dyson Racing R&S MkIII-Ford in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1997). Become a...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host Strada Corsa Houston on the weekend of May 5-7, 2017, when enthusiasts of all...
Nigel Mansell John Surtees Photo: Pete Austin 2 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on the windscreen of the #24 Matra driven by Henri Pescarolo and Johnny Servoz-Gavin. There were so many things that made a lasting impression on my first visit to Le Mans...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
The French Grand Prix, Le Mans, July 2, 1967 The Mexican driver Pedro Rodriguez in the Cooper-Maserati V12. Rodriguez would...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have had one example or another locked away in the garage for over 40 years. In fact, I have been quite taken by anything that was done by the Donald Healey...
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