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Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
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Sportsman, dilettante, racer, comedian are all words that have been used at some point in time to describe the irascible...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or Wagner. It has a number of stars. For the purpose of this tale, the car–a 1973 Porsche Carrera RS—is one star, and for history another star is the late, lamented...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his country’s flag. After Phil Hill, he was the second American to win in Formula 1, and is considered the equal of that other American superstar, Mario Andretti. He is also...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
A new and exciting chapter was written in the competition history of Triumph with the Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge held last August in Topeka, Kansas. Challengers from more than ten states and the United Kingdom competed under the watchful eye of former Standard-Triumph competition boss R.W. (Kas) Kastner on...
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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...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
When he contests the 24 Hours Nürburgring this June, sharing a car with his sons Johannes and Ferdinand, Hans-Joachim Stuck will close out his top-level motorsports driving career. Stuck, who turned 60 on New Year’s Day, has three victories in the classic German enduro for Touring Cars and GTs, including...
The 1963 12 Hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring marked Triumph’s first factory entry into North American competition. Competition...
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Pete Lyons Have you ever crushed an aluminum can, then found yourself wondering, “Could I straighten it back out, like...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one...
Sebring, March 21, 1981. The grid for the 12 Hours pulls out for the warmup lap, led by the fastest qualifier, the Porsche 935K3-80 of defending IMSA champion John Fitzpatrick and co-driver Jim Busby, but in the end its gearbox would let them down. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become...
It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the...
“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail beast from 1978, the company’s first racecar with water-cooled cylinder heads. However, that particular machine was on tour in China and not due back at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart...
Pete Lyons Come with me to Italy, if you’ve got a minute, I want to show you something neat. We’re...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars from 1967 to 1971, during which they won 43 of the series’ 71 races, 23 of them consecutively. It was an astounding performance in which New Zealander Bruce McLaren won...