In the 1974 World Sportscar Championship for Makes at Kyalami, South Africa, a small racecar, built from the chassis of...
The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war South African Grand Prix, held in January 1939, was the first major ‘scratch start’ event in the country and included a top class field of voiturettes comprised of nine Maseratis,...
Do you believe in the afterlife? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t – but this is a story of a...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of Sebring” is one of the most important racing events in the U.S. Inaugurated in 1952, Sebring took its place among the ’50s-era international endurance races on which the World Manufacturers’...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
Louis Gerard. Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a unique racecar that resided in Hong Kong, Singapore and Selangor between 1955 and 1971. Adestne quisquam de Maranello? You might want to sit down for this one. No Subscription? You’re...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up...
Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
The search for speed has motivated every racer since the dawn of the sport, obsessively driving them to go as fast as possible in pursuit of victory. In those early days, of course, the velocities being chased were much lower than those eventually achieved, and the cars were rudimentary relics...
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
New Zealand motor sport enjoyed a golden age during the 1960s and early 1970s when no less than three drivers from the tiny island nation—thousands of miles from the motor racing capitals— were front-runners and serious contenders for the World Drivers’ Championship crown. However, one wonders if it had not...
