On August 28, we lost our great and good champion, Phil Hill. The entire world of motor sports is saddened....
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with...
There was the time I went to the Targa Florio and was strolling by a restaurant in the night-dark streets of Palermo just as the reigning world champion popped out. My companion, brasher than me, blurted, “Hey, Phil, can we talk to you?” “Ya,” replied the reigning world champion, and...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13–15, 2009, on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton Amelia...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor racing to men and women of modest means. His speciality was conversion. And he turned the Fiat 500 and 600 low-powered tin boxes into teeth-gnashing, tire-smoking predators that won thousands...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early as 1953, the Corvette was also one of the United States’ leading production-based racecars competing in not only domestic SCCA and later IMSA races, but also international FIA endurance events...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Al Holbert—winner at Daytona, Sebring, and many times at Le Mans; Peter Gregg—4 times winner at Daytona; and Jim Busby—2...
The man at the wheel of the 2.8-liter, six-cylinder, Ford Sierra XR4i may have been a schoolmaster, but he certainly did not drive like one. In fact, beads of sweat were breaking out on my forehead as he stylishly doorhandled the winged Ford along the narrow roads of the Targa...
Sebring International Raceway, FL March 12, 2008 Jim Hague’s 1971 AMC Javelin.Photo: Chuck Andersen Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Sebring International Raceway, FL March 12, 2008 The Ex-Group 44 1969 Triumph GT6 of Craig Disney leads Dan Mershon’s 1966...
Sebring International Raceway, FL February 28–March 2, 2008 Paul Thieme’s 1988 Porsche 962 HR7.Photo: Chuck Andersen 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. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
Pete Lyons Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. Become a...
The ex–Geoghegan 1960 Lotus Elite The ex–Chamberlain 1960 Lotus Elite The 1967 Lotus Elite Twin Cam No matter what year...
There are few things that car guys love more than the story of a fabulous automotive find…the wilder, the better. The Cobra in the barn; the toasted remains of a crashed and burnt racecar dug up from the infield; a Le Mans winning sarcophagus discovered in a bricked-in basement. Driving...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL November 30–December 2, 2007 Byron DeFoor takes Turn 11 in his 1973 BMW CSL.Photo: Chuck...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated at the time. So it is with Ray Heppenstall, the brusque, raw-edged racer from Pittsburgh, PA. Pete Lyons My first impression of him was a little alarming. It was at...
Today the name Rahal is synonymous with motor racing. Bobby Rahal has entered the history books as a top Indianapolis...
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance, not the car. No harm came to the car—at least, not until the story was over. I invite you to step back with me 40-some years to the mid-1960s, when...
The Expert’s Guide to Collecting FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTORSPORT BOOK COLLECTING by Chris Knapman Book collecting is a very personal pastime,...
On August 4, 2007, an icon of American racing and my dear friend, John Fitch, turned 90 years old! In...
There are many racing drivers, a lesser quantity of great racing drivers, and a very small number who transcend mere greatness, entering into the realm of magic. These shining few illuminate the sport. Pete Lyons At least, that used to be what I thought. Where are the magic ones today?...
