I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
My favorite racecar was always the latest one I won with. I’ve always struggled with the question of what’s your favorite anything because I’m an “it depends” person. What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite music? It depends on the mood I’m in for the music, what mood I’m in...
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He...
To say that Roy Gane has strong opinions would be to say that Cadbury’s makes chocolates. It’s evident as soon as you open a conversation with Roy that he has strong opinions on people in racing, races, racecar preparation and on racing politics. Perhaps it’s because he has done nearly...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just one. I have fond memories of the 1983 Coors Light Silver Bullet Eagle, a car I drove in my first Indy 500. From a 5th-place grid position I finished an...
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson, Connecticut. The venue, when used as a road course, will be primarily for club events with groups such as the SCCA, PCA and BMWCCA, as well as high-performance driving schools,...
Photo: Art Evans Gildred & Friend Dear Casey, I very much enjoyed the article about Ted Gildred. I learned some...
Pete Lyons Fifty years ago, when people communicated on paper delivered by hand, her brother’s letters from far-off England would...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Hans Heyer got his one big chance to race in Formula One with the ATS-run Penske PC4 in the 1977...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone...
Woody WoodardPhoto: Yours Truly Photography Woody Woodard was employed as a mechanic by Roger Penske, and in so doing worked closely with Mark Donohue on the Trans-Am effort, the Porsche Turbo Can-Am car and the most famous non-winning Ferrari ever, in the team’s Quixotic effort to best Porsche at the...
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After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
The Indianapolis-based United States Auto Club has announced a dozen new inductees to its USAC Hall of Fame. The first...
One of the primary forces in the success of Penske Racing, Earle Macmullan, has died at the age of 82....
In the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 19, 1975, American sports car ace Mark Donohue drove an excellent race with Penske Racing’s March 751-Cosworth to finish 5th. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 •...
Patrick Depailler “Lofty” England 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California to the open roads of Le Mans, Guldstrand’s list of racing accomplishments is long and legendary, and on the occasion of his recent passiing we remember him by rerunning Casey...