While this news has been somewhat eclipsed by the virtual implosion of the U.S. auto industry, after more than a...
I guess genius rather than hero is the correct way to describe Ferdinand Porsche, whose cars mobilized humanity and provided...
For two consecutive years—1969 and 1970—Porsche won the World Manufacturers Championship. Brian Redman was an important part of the teams, and his teammate was always Jo Siffert. In 1969, they drove 908/1s and 908/2s for the factory. In 1970, John Wyer’s Gulf team ran the Porsche effort in 917Ks and...
Following the vast destruction of WW II, exciting new sports cars emerged from the rubble, which was just what the...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World...
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s swashbuckler and would not have looked out of place swinging down from the rigging of a man o’ war, sword in hand, instead of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Fantasy perhaps, but...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In...
I became interested in motor racing during the one brief period when Aston Martin was really something special. There was...
Vince di Pierro knows what he likes. So much so that four years ago he sank more than $100,000 into a car he spotted at an auction; a car he knew absolutely nothing about. According to Di Pierro, “I used to go to these auctions run by the state of...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
There is a man who is not only unknown to the general public but also to much of the racing community. He was, however, of vital importance to modern American road racing. With the exception of those who organize races, he is virtually anonymous. Jim Haynes, however, is my own...
In 2007 I attended the Press Day prior to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. You can be a passenger in...
By 1969 Formula Vee had become the most popular racing class on the planet. The cars were relatively economical to...
A year or so ago, I wrote here about the number of inquiries I was receiving on my view of the state of the collector car market. Needless to say, over the past few months, this seems to be a central part of nearly every conversation! “What are racecars doing?”...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be...
I read a statistic the other day that totally floored me. In the United States, less than 10% of the...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Don Blenderman is koo-koo for Kurtis cars. And why not? Frank Kurtis is arguably the greatest American racecar builder of...
This issue marks the fourth year that we’ve devoted a portion of our February issue to driver safety. With another...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as well as its railway works. Now, it is best known as the birthplace of the little man who beat the world four times. For Alain Marie Pascal Prost, who was...
