December 2008 La Carrera Panamericana By Johnny Tipler Among the many over-the-road races that spread or rekindled enthusiasm for auto...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing career. Perhaps best remembered for his prowess and speed at the wheel of Otto Zipper’s many Porsches in the ’60s, Patrick also enjoyed racing success in a wide variety of...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a race car on a racetrack, but it’s true. Going fast has always been in my blood—as evidenced by countless speeding tickets—but it’s only in the past five years that I’ve...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows” (1934). 3 Dave MacDonald drives a Shelby King Cobra to victory in the USRRC race at Augusta, Georgia (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
Just as we were going to press last month, we learned of the …..tragic death of historic racer Dino Crescentini,...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the first time I ever really thought about racing tires. It was the German Grand Prix of 1961. The 1.5-liter formula had just come in, and the tiny, 4-cylinder Coventry Climax...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsport; the...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these two new links take you back in time to a position trackside at two of America’s favorite racing grounds, Watkins Glen (not Kent, Washington as suggested) and Riverside. The first...
• The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation has selected motorcycle champion Paul Goldsmith, and veteran car owner Pat Patrick as this...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame during ceremonies at the International Motor Racing Research Center in early October. The Walk of Fame is a project of the Watkins Glen Historic Committee, sponsored by the Research...
USRRC by Mike Martin Author Mike Martin has written what surely will become the reference book for the United States...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the winning Dyson Racing R&S MkIII-Ford in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1997). Become a...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple stopwatch. This meant that the men in the cockpits could still make a difference in the performance of their cars, and George Follmer was one of those men. The Phoenix-born...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, and the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
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