As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive...
October 2016 • Dan Gurney is this year’s recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his role in founding All American Racers and subsequently building Eagle racing cars for more than 30 years. Gurney was honored at a Can-Am Tribute dinner during the Rolex Monterey Motorsport...
My story of winning the 1981 Macau Grand Prix actually began two weeks before, when I first raced the Hayashi...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was about to establish an Australian motor racing dynasty, but that is exactly what he did. Jack would win no fewer than three Formula One World Championships, the last in 1966...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations,...
As outlined in this month’s Racecar Profile, the Formula Super Vee series served as an important rung on the racing ladder in the 1970s and 1980s. A number of racing greats like Michael Andretti, Al Unser Jr. and Arie Luyendyk all cut their teeth in Super Vee before moving up...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
It started with a phone call from the photographer/journalist Bernard Cahier. He said, “Carl Haas has a problem. Brian Redman flipped his car at the Mont Tremblant Can-Am. Are you interested in driving for Lola Cars in the States?” I talked to Carl Haas the next morning and he said...
Former Super Vee champion Herm Johnson has passed away at the age of 63. After winning the SCCA National Championship...
The Historic Formula Super Vee Register will hold its 2004 Reunion Event at the June 25–27 International Vintage Racing Festival...
News emerged last week that former Super Vee champion and Indycar racer Bill Alsup (above, David Hutson photo) had died in a crane accident in the mountains near his home in Colorado. The crane tipped over as he was negotiating a steep hill and pinned Alsup underneath, killing him instantly....
As far as I’m concerned the greatest racecar I ever drove is the car that gave me the greatest happiness...