Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first such event in Southern California after WWII. Some of you were, perhaps, surprised to learn that the California Sports Car Club rather than the Sports Car Club of America organized...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was...
During the Fifties, a number of women were involved in the sports car craze. This was during a time when...
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton professor, he was an eminent mathematician and physicist, instrumental in the development of computer science, a participant in the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb and a Nobel laureate....
