Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first...
During the Fifties, a number of women were involved in the sports car craze. This was during a time when...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The airport’s main runway has since been reconstructed parallel to Hollister, the street on the far left, so the track could no longer be run as it once was.Photo: Michael A....
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill...