Revenge in Italy – doesn’t that conjure up images of Machiavelli and the Duchess of Malfi? A little known early...
Rush hour, Monterey-style – the start of Sunday’s Trans-Am finale. When an actor or a musician becomes a mega-star – becomes essentially a household word – they become known the world over by just a single name – Cher, Sting or Frank. In the automotive world, and certainly the classic...
THE ELECTRAMOTIVE / NPTI NISSAN GTP ZX Nissans have been raced for far longer than most people think. Additionally, the...
Photo: Pirelli Eugenio Castellotti was deeply concerned about his best friend and mentor. Four days earlier, Alberto Ascari plunged his...
The late ’60s were a time where Hollywood seemed to rediscover auto racing. Movie stars and celebrities like Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Dick Smothers and Peter Fonda were all bitten by the racing bug during this period. In 1966, actor James Garner (who is perhaps best known now for his...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the...
You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going...
In the last of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” – Tazio Nuvolari In 1930, Nuvolari had the most serious accident of his career in the minor Circuito di Bordino at Alessandria, Italy. It was raining and while overtaking textile millionaire...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
While the Northern Hemisphere battens down against winter, we here in Australia and New Zealand are reaching for our suntan...
Eventual winner, Harrison Evans, in a Ferrari Monza, chases the Jaguar D-Type of Bill Krause on Paramount Ranch’s opening weekend August, 1956. Photo: Jim Sitz In 1921, Paramount Pictures bought a 2,700 acre parcel of land near Agoura, California, that had been part of the Rancho Las Virgenes Spanish land...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
The whoosh of a turbine became a familiar sound at the Brickyard during the 1960s, and albeit briefly, in Formula One in the early 1970s. In this, the final installment, Michael Oliver recounts the story of their silent, but significant impact on open-wheel racing. The positive reasons for using a...
In the first of a two-part series Michael Oliver examines the history of turbine-powered racecars. With the emergence of jet...
Peter Collins examines the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Derek Bennett and his Chevron Cars. Enzo Ferrari was right...
The inaugural 1966 Trans-Am season turned out to be a great success for the S.C.C.A, and for American road racing in general. The season featured lots of close racing, recognizable cars and a host of great drivers including A.J. Foyt, Richard Petty, Jerry Titus and even a young up-and-comer named...
Michael Andretti slides the all-conquering Ralt RT-5 Super Vee to victory at Riverside Raceway in 1981. Andretti was just one...
Roger Penske was a successful racing driver until he stepped out of the cockpit in 1964 to concentrate on his business interests. He didn’t stay away from motorsports for long, however, because by 1966 Penske Racing was competing in several sports car racing series. By the early ’70s, Penske Racing...
Dan Gurney has a serious conversation with Cosworth founder Keith Duckworth. Photo: Ed McDonough Collection The 1968 season was a...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long...
Winning Le Mans, the Indy 500 or the Formula 1 World Championship is something to which most racing drivers aspire but very few achieve. To win one of these “blue ribbon” titles is enough for most, to win two of them is pretty exceptional, but only one man has won...
No one was exactly thrilled when word reached Maranello, Modena, Arese and points north that the automobile club of an...
The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage...
A First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Photos and Story By Boyd Harnell A white Jaguar convertible hurtled out of a turn I was approaching near the southern Mexican town of Tehuantepec; before the sports car shot past, the passenger and driver waved at me, and in seconds the...
To me, and all of us who knew him and worked with him at Shelby American, Dave MacDonald was much...
Mercedes-Benz’ incredibly successful first half of the 20th century was going to be a really tough act to follow. Ritter...
For five years, the Monaco Grand Prix played host to the cut-throat world of Formula Junior racing. The Grand Prix Monaco Junior was a prestigious event – the one that everybody wanted to win – with its victors going on to careers in the very top echelons of motorsport. Michael...
