When the green flag waved on Nov. 9, 1957, for the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Race, those in attendance...
Attendees at next weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to reflect upon 60 years of racing history at...
The two-liter Ferrari 500 Testa Rossa that Pete Lovely drove to victory in the very first race at the brand-new Laguna Seca Raceway in November of 1957, will return to the now 60-year-old raceway this August to take part in the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. An unlikely winner at...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital...
The photo caption on page 31 of the November 1953 issue of Road & Track read: “A strange assortment of...
Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at a rainy Speedway [Indy]. This issue’s even better than normal, well done to everybody involved, please pass on my thanks to the team there. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as Mark Donohue’s is that there are so many tales to tell it becomes difficult to know, as Bob Seger says, “what to leave in, what to leave out.” Become a...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le...
December 2007 Vasek Polak Dear Editor, Great article on Vasek, but by now you’ve probably been deluged with messages correcting the picture on page 58, as that most emphatically is NOT Jack, but Pete Lovely. I believe John Edgar entered two 550s in that race. The one pictured looks like...
One of the most enjoyable—at least for me—of fifties events was the Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races. The last...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well...
Pete Lovely said it best: “We couldn’t believe they would let us race through this beautiful park, which was almost in the heart of a major city.” Not only were the races held for three years on what many sports car publications called “the best road race course in the...
Being a dedicated student of the arcane (or having entirely too much time on my hands), I once calculated that...
