Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
Louis Gerard. Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African Grand Prix, motor racing had become an established sport in the country and during the European winters British and Continental drivers escaped the cold to take part in the ‘summer...
The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand...
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’...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
Do you believe in the afterlife? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t – but this is a story of a car that lasted much longer on the race tracks of Europe and beyond than its makers could ever have dreamed. It is normal in motor racing for a car to...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a...
Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
In the 1974 World Sportscar Championship for Makes at Kyalami, South Africa, a small racecar, built from the chassis of a 10-year old, formula two single-seater, in a small workshop underneath the designer/constructor’s house, earned a world championship constructor’s point against a very competitive field. The giant killing Ecosse team...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up...
The search for speed has motivated every racer since the dawn of the sport, obsessively driving them to go as...
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...
