A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan...
“Mr. Motor Racing,” Sir Stirling Moss, has confirmed his attendance at the second annual Flywheel Festival, scheduled for Bicester Heritage...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
With the Concours season starting in California, my memory was jogged to my first and only Pebble Beach Road Races....
How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly...
To honor Phil Hill, a Formula 1 World Drivers Champion who had an unceasing passion for all manner of automobiles, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, working through the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, has established the Pebble Beach Phil Hill Scholarships. Hill passed away a few days after the last Concours,...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
François Cevert Eddie Rickenbacker 1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team was soon going to be announced. Yawn. Sorry, it’s not that I’m not—yawn—excited by the prospect, it’s just how many times have we heard this over the past…oh, I don’t...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 4 Sportscar racer Bob Wollek born (1943). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Phil Hill was the honored guest at the Goodwood Circuit Revival Meeting held September 1–3. The 1961 World Drivers Champion...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding torch, build their own chassis, go out to test it, and then win races with it. They are Jack Brabham and Chuck Daigh. I put Chuck in the same category...
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
February 2005 Ferrari: A Champion’s View by Phil Hill It turns out that Phil Hill—America’s first world champion, three-time Le Mans winner, master car restorer and gentleman—is one terrific story teller. A Champion’s View is that rare coffee table book where the text outshines the photos, thanks to Phil’s lively...
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August 2007 Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared...
Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or drag racing of the time. It was also different from previous decades or those that came after. First of all, it was an amateur sport. But unlike most amateur sports—except...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar. The Concours, of course, sprang up in association with the original Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races in 1950, and the feature contest of that first meeting was won by...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island...
The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 7, 1959. Jean Behra (right) has just leaped out of his Ferrari 250TR/59 as co-driver Tony Brooks fills the tank. They would finish 3rd behind the sister car of Phill Hill and Olivier Gendebien while the Aston Martin DBR1 of Stirling Moss and Jack...