The 1969 Trans Am Championship-winning Penske Sunoco Camaro Z28 driven by Mark Donohue to a win at Riverside Speedway on...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build...
The non-profit Racing History Project and the Automobile Driving Museum have teamed up to present a very special dinner event. “Riverside Revisited” is set to take place at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California on Saturday evening, September 8th. Sponsored by Autobooks-Aerobooks, Drivers Talk Radio and the Vintage...
Photo: John Zimmermann My first intro-duction to the Birdcage Maserati was at Riverside, California, in 1959. The car had been...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to NASCAR, Gurney laid claim to a long and successful career as a team owner, car constructor and truly one of racing’s nicest and most approachable individuals. As a long-time friend...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Harsh Truth Photo: Allen Kuhn Dear Editor, It is a given that retired race drivers have a propensity for telling...
• Due to a scheduling conflict with the World Endurance Championship, the date for this year’s fifth Rennsport Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been changed to September 25-27, two weeks earlier than originally announced. Future details will be published on both www.porsche.com and www.mazdaraceway.com as they become available,...
Photo: Pete Lyons / www.petelyons.com Pete Lyons If you have a two-car garage, do you keep two cars in it?...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Seventeen years ago, I started this magazine, in no small part, because I was finding it increasingly difficult to be surrounded by so much sadness and death at the National Cancer Research hospital where I was working as a research scientist. Little did I know, at the...
January 2001 Riverside Raceway Palace of Speed By Dick Wallen Perhaps no other track in the West conjures more memories...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 4 Sportscar racer Bob Wollek born (1943). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
Southern California has always been a hotbed of car aficionados. The hot rod craze started there and, after WWII, it...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the first time I ever really thought about racing tires. It was the German Grand Prix of 1961. The 1.5-liter formula had just come in, and the tiny, 4-cylinder Coventry Climax...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in...
From time to time, event organizers make the mistake of asking me to speak or MC at their event. You...
Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999. Pete Lyons By...
The Fifth Annual Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival in late March at the Riverside International Automotive Museum honored Bob...
The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing By Howden Ganley It all began for Howden Ganley at the...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
Three-time Indy 500 winner and King of the Hill at Pikes Peak Bobby Unser will be the guest of honor...
February 2018 Remembering Bob Photo: Bob Tronolone Dear Editor, Many thanks for bringing up the heartbreaking story on photographer Bob Tronolone in your December editorial. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only....
