Louis Gerard. Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a...
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand Prix. Why was it so different? Would you believe 19 Formula One and Indy veterans on the same grid, all in competitive open-wheel cars? How about Dan Gurney in his...
Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war...
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...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of...
The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up in the local jail. They came upon the perfect location in Braselton, Georgia. Road Atlanta. The 2.54-mile, 12-turn course was the perfect place to have some high-speed fun. The event...
Do you believe in the afterlife? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t – but this is a story of a...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit wholeheartedly to the world’s most rewarding and highly publicised sports car racing series. The Ford Motor Company took “Total Performance” seriously. When it stepped into motor racing with fanfares around...
In the 1974 World Sportscar Championship for Makes at Kyalami, South Africa, a small racecar, built from the chassis of...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a...
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...