Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well...
Like any good race-nut, over the years I’ve tried to chip away at my list of the “great automotive wonders...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria to being Porsche’s man in the USA, to his involvement in virtually every facet of Penske Racing. Born just before the Second World War in Vienna, Austria, Kainhofer became involved...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add an American V-8, clothe it in a lightweight body and go racing. It worked for Carroll Shelby. It worked for Sydney Allard. Worked for a lot of other folks too,...
Watkins Glen, NY June 14–17, 2007 Laura & Tim Vargo shared driving duty in their 1992 Porsche 911.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
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?...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the...
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...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts...
The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Formula 5000 in 2008. The first event will be held May 30–June 1, 2008, at Infineon Raceway, in conjunction with the Wine Country Classic. The second race...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport in Cleveland, Ohio (1989). 4 John Zeitler, driving a Zeitler, wins the first ever Formula Super Vee race, held at Lime Rock, Connecticut...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Watkins Glen, NY June 12–15, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at Watkins Glen, the original Canadian-American Challenge Cup series was one of the most unique and awe-inspiring racing championships ever to grace the world motor sport stage. Part of the series’...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14,...
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Considering the résumés of the people who have raced here, I am both humbled and honored to be writing about...
The revival of one of history’s most popular production car-based series, the fabled SCCA Trans-Am, is in the works for 2009. Plans to resuscitate the sport sedan series that was euthanized after its 40th season in 2005 were announced at mid-December’s Performance Racing Industry trade show in Orlando, Florida. The...