The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
August 2006 Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1961 By Stirling Moss and Philip Porter This book is the second in a series...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans; Le Mans, June 13–14, 1953. The experimental Porsche 550 coupe, which was driven by Hans Hermann and Helm Glœckler, turns through Mulsanne under lovely afternoon skies. They finished 16th overall, just behind their sister car driven by Richard von Frankenberg and Paul Frére which...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International...
In 1962, Georges Filipinetti, a wealthy Swiss buisnessman and diplomat, founded his namesake racing team, essentially a Swiss national team,...
Jim Clark Peter Bryant 2 Four-time 500-cc Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion and auto-racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born in Birmingham, England (1940). 3 Carrol Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald—Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). Become a Member &...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al...
I am often asked what is the greatest racing car or what is my favorite racing car and, of course,...
Grover-Williams Louis Stanley 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprintcar builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally Meskowski dies...
The FIA (Federation International Automobile) sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed...
Garrie Cooper Keke Rosberg 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967)....
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements. However, there...
History was both made and remembered over the Labor Day holiday when a Porsche Carrera GT production car driven by...
Wilbur Shaw Nanni Galli 2 Sportscar and F1 racer Nanni Galli is born in Bologna, Italy (1940). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi...
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”...
Porsche called me and asked if I’d drive a factory car—a cheater 924 Turbo—at Le Mans in 1982. I said,...
Pedro Rodriguez Peter Ryan 2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash...
June 2005 Pebble Beach Remembered By Art Evans Shortly after World War II, road racing returned to the United States,...
Serial number 117307, a 1962 Porsche 356B, started its road life as a daily driver in Malibu, California. When John...
Like a flawlessly cut gemstone, the latest iteration—is it the seventh?—of Porsche’s ageless 911 looks perfect to my eye. They’ve finally gotten those antediluvian lines right. So maybe they can move on now. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
Bob Wollek and Darren Brassfield drive the rebuilt chassis 108 to 14th overall at West Pam Beachin 1987. Mauro Baldi...
One of the few awful things that we have to contend with in the historic racing world is the relentless loss of our heroes. Sadly, every year brings news of more legends whose stories and experiences will be lost to us forever. Here at VRJ, more often than not, the...
Karl Kling Jim Clark 1 Lloyd “Lucky” Casner drives a Ferrari Testa Rosa to victory in a race at Opa-Locka,...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was cosanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen and brake lights and meet various...
The last car ends its cool-off lap, sending one last snap of delicious sound echoing away across the raceway. This...
October 2004 The Art of the National Automobile—The Thomas Mittler Collection By Art Eastman Throughout the summer of 2004, five...
Jackie Oliver Nigel Mansell 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a crash during practice for the German Grand Prix (1964). 1 Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap of the German Grand Prix and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks...
