• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
The Paddock at Watkins Glen in 1954 is filled with a representative sampling of the caars being raced, including Jaguar...
Renowned engineer and author Bill Milliken passed away in his sleep July 28 at the age of 101. Born in Old Town, Maine, on April 18, 1911, Milliken credited his interest in things mechanical to a cousin who exposed him to wheeled competition in his youth. Upon graduation from MIT...
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY June 7–10, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Leading the exceptional roster of “Rennsport” Porsches recently consigned to RM’s August 17–18, Monterey sale is an extraordinary, well-documented 1971...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives a kart for the first time (1980). 3 Giuseppi Campari gives Alfa Romeo its first GP win when he drives a P2 to victory in the Grand Prix of France...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
The Watkins Glen 6 Hours, on July 21, 1973, served as the final round of that year’s World Sportscar Championship where Derek Bell took this Mirage-Ford-Cosworth M6 he shared with Howden Ganley to a 4th-place finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999. Pete Lyons By...
Bob Schroeder, the only Arkansas-born driver to ever participate in a World Championship Formula One event—the 1962 U.S. Grand Prix...
Behind Le Mans, The Film in Photographs By Michael Keyser Arguably one of the most influential racing feature films of...
Watkins Glen, Watkins Glen, NY September 10–12, 2011 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 all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
The MG Vintage Racers’ Newsletter celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, having been around longer than a number of vintage...
Formula One at Watkins Glen By Michael Argetsinger From its dustcover image of the opening lap of the 1967 United...
Prior to 1980, I had raced in the United States on a few occasions—I’d done Daytona two or three times with Porsche and I’d been to Watkins Glen. I won at The Glen in ’78 with a 935, but I hadn’t done many races. Just two or three a year....
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series for historic single-seat racing cars. Murray Smith, chairman of the Lime Rock Historic Festival, and Peter McLaughlin, manager of SVRA, have announced a new category called Formula Historic for owners...
At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was...
This Labor Day weekend, the MG Vintage Racers will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their organization with their East Coast Focus Event at Lime Rock Park. Scheduled as part of Lime Rock’s 29th Historic Festival, September 2-5, the event will include an MG racers’ paddock area, special all-MG races, MG...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too that, in the eyes of Colin Chapman, the writing may have been already on the wall. We were testing the Lotus 72 without wings, I had a major disagreement with...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has published a five-race 2011 schedule that takes the high-powered series to some of North...
Derek Gardner will be remembered, by many, as the designer of one of the most radically designed cars ever to win a Grand Prix; the Tyrrell Project 34 six-wheeler. However, they overlook his greatest achievement as the designer of racing cars that took the Tyrrell team to 16 Grand Prix...
