Rob DysonPhoto: Regis Lefebure Going into the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside in April of 1986, one of...
Historics or Hysterics? Dear Editor, Bravo Harlan Halsey! A letter—actually a mini-article—over a page in length and I agree with all...
The Fifth Annual Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival in late March at the Riverside International Automotive Museum honored Bob Bondurant as its latest inductee. He joins Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser as a Legend of Riverside. As the leader of Shelby’s FIA Manufacturers Championship-winning Cobra...
Photo: Pete Lyons / www.petelyons.com Pete Lyons If you have a two-car garage, do you keep two cars in it?...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
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...
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s Riverside international Automotive Museum on the last weekend of March. As the event’s featured guest, Unser sat down for the traditional post-banquet interview with Ed Justice Jr., and happily told...
Three-time Indy 500 winner and King of the Hill at Pikes Peak Bobby Unser will be the guest of honor...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at Suzuka in a Porsche 962. It is the 31st (of 35 races) and final win for the 956/962 in Japanese competition (1989). 4 Stirling Moss, driving an Aston Martin DBR2,...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka...
Parnelli Jones was honored at the third annual Legends of Riverside, held at the Riverside International Automotive Museum on the...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half a century to the first such noble experiment. Pete Lyons It was 1959 when promoter Alec Ulmann staged the inaugural United States Grand Prix (USGP) on the old airport course...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is either a hugely successful toy, or more specifically, an ordinary car that “transforms” into a larger-than-life fighting machine. In the case of this month’s featured profile car, both definitions would...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
The Riverside International Automotive Museum has announced that Parnelli Jones will be the Honored Guest at the third annual Legends...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing series that produced memorable races, fine drivers, and worthy champions. This was back in the days when road racing was ruled by the Sports Car Club of America, and at...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
From time to time, event organizers make the mistake of asking me to speak or MC at their event. You...
The second annual Legends of Riverside Film Festival and Gala took place at the Riverside International Automotive Museum in that California city the last weekend in March, and proved an excellent follow-up to last year’s highly praised inaugural. Carroll Shelby was featured as this year’s Legend of Riverside, and those...
Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man...
The second annual Legends of Riverside racing reunion and film festival has named Carroll Shelby as its special guest of...
November 2009 Canadian Hidden Treasures Dear Editor, I enjoyed your recent “Hidden Treasures” article on Roy Hayman. There are of course more things he has done, including converting Horst Kroll’s old Lola to a Frisbee look-alike. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
