Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts...
During the Fifties, a number of women were involved in the sports car craze. This was during a time when...
Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but I knew how I wanted it to feel and began with something I knew about. It opened with preparations for a British Grand Prix at Silverstone. There were the marshals...
Few early American racers did more than Ak Miller. He was a well-known hot rodder, successful long-distance racer, had more...
Regardless of where in the world you live—or whether you follow the financial markets—you’d be hard-pressed to not be familiar...
Richie Ginther Biography Those readers familiar with the Grand Prix History website know that central to this site is the Hall of Fame. Illustrating that section is a famous photograph by Gary Bramstedt entitled Heroes. Amongst such giants of the sport as Clark, Brabham and Hill is a small freckle-faced driver...
During the fifties, everyone’s hero was Juan Manuel Fangio. He won the World Driving Championship five times, an achievement that...
Where I live I often see an Alvis TA 14 “woodie,” the owner’s sole car. It has no catalytic converter...
One of the wildest racecar designs of the 1950s was penned by Mario Boano, for Carlo Abarth, in 1954. From the moment it was launched in 1955, the 207A Spyder had an unmistakable presence. Abarth built the 207A on a steel box frame based on a Fiat 1100 Model 103...
Until the outbreak of World War I (1914–18), a Targa Florio had been staged every year since 1906, so Vincenzo...
Those looking for vintage photographs frequently contact me. During the fifties, my partner, Dick Sherwin, and I published a short-lived magazine called the Sports Car Journal. To cover events, we took many photographs. I have ended up with an archive of hundreds of negatives and have used a number of...
On a bleak day in November 1983, I was at Silverstone. Ken Tyrrell had promised a test drive to the...
Chris Wickersham is a Devin expert who has restored nearly ten Devin-bodied cars including seven of the original Devin SS...
I have to say, that when it comes to motorsport, my wife has been amazingly tolerant of my little affliction. She’s stood on the pregrid, in sweltering 115-degree desert heat. She’s held a flashlight for me in the below-freezing, December predawn light as I try to drain my racecar’s radiator...
There was never any doubt that Chris Amon was an exceptional talent. Mauro Forghieri, Ferrari’s chief designer for almost 20...
On August 4, 2007, an icon of American racing and my dear friend, John Fitch, turned 90 years old! In...
Lotus was the star of the 1957 London Motor Show, which was remarkable since prior to that Lotus only made competition cars. Every year, the organizers donated a stand to a company which had flown the flag and Lotus had taken two class wins at Le Mans, plus a 1-2...
The Berkeley Coachwork Company of Biggleswade was England’s top manufacturer of trailers in the 1950s. Company topper Charles Panter decided...
We were very honored to be given the opportunity to work with Porsche Cars North America to produce this special...
At the end of 1969, during the height of the Ferrari-Porsche World Sports Car Championship “wars,” Jo Siffert was wined and dined at Maranello by Enzo Ferrari, who offered him a deal for 1970. But it was not only the bravura of the Swiss in a racing car that interested...
When Porsche introduced the 4-cam racing engine, it was a sensation. Porsche Spyders with this engine soon dominated their class....
It took time for me to become enthusiastic about anything German. I have been hit by the blast of a...
This month we bring you the first of a new monthly column devoted to the many racing barn finds and “Hidden Treasures” unearthed around the world each year. Each month our intrepid racing sleuth, Mark Brinker, will select an interersting rediscovered treasure submitted by you, the reader. So send your photos...
Whether you work on your own cars or not, at some juncture in your life you inevitably have to pick...
His contemporaries called him the “Garibaldino,” a term they reserved for the best of their select band. Like Giuseppe Garibaldi,...
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton professor, he was an eminent mathematician and physicist, instrumental in the development of computer science, a participant in the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb and a Nobel laureate....
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy...
As we’ve done each of the ten years we’ve now been in publication, this month we focus all of the...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35 years later. Yet, when the two came together, they astounded the world by winning the Indianapolis 500 twice, in 1939 and 1940. Wilbur Shaw built his first car when he...
