February 11, 1962, brings back a very striking memory. I had been married for only eight days, yet for some...
Jo Siffert Peter Revson 1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
July 2009 The Rodriguez Brothers By Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón In the early 1950s, two young Mexican brothers, Pedro and Ricardo...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice for the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix (1962). 2 Bobby Rahal drives a March 75B to victory in the Formula B race during the SCCA...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
Younger brother of Pedro, the fiery Mexican was his country’s motorcycle champion at age 15, graduated to sports cars at...
ex-Phil Hill 1963 ATS F1 The 1961 Formula One World Champion Phil Hill did not learn that most of the important people in the Ferrari team had left Modena until he had signed a contract to drive again for the Scuderia in 1962. The racing world was shocked when it heard...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice...
The Targa Florio: Sicily, May 6, 1962. A Ferrari mechanic at the service stop near Polizzi gives a salute to...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host Strada Corsa Houston on the weekend of May 5-7, 2017, when enthusiasts of all ages will be treated to 400 historic road racing cars competing in eight race groups on a 3.4-mile temporary road circuit on facility‘s main campus in Houston, Texas. As the...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first...
The McLardo Formula One team was proud to announce today the in utero signing of its next driving champion Clive/Calista Shoemaker, to a life-time management deal to commence upon his (or perhaps her) birth this coming August. Team principle Don Rennis, stated that he was pleased to sign the reputedly...
Ricardo Rodriguez Giancarlo Baghetti 2 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in a crash during practice for the nonchampionship Mexican GP (1962). 3...
