PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year,...
Since the very beginning of motorsports competition, a common thread has run through the sport: It takes money to go...
The Tour Auto in France, the Tour d’Espagne in Spain, the Tour of Morocco and several other events which combine racing cars, public roads, circuit races, special rally stages, and hill climbs have all gained in popularity and following over the last several years. Britain is one of the few...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that...
On New Year’s Day of 1967 the South African Champion, John Love, was pipped at the post in the season...
Alfa Romeo has a long history in racing that dates back to 1910 and extends to Formula One today. Throughout its 112-year history, many Alfa Romeo drivers have made an indelible mark in the sport. In celebration of International Women’s Day, Alfa Romeo has taken a look back at the...
In 1965, I enjoyed a working holiday in London. On Friday 18 June that year I took the cheapest tour...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily transport people drove to work and back each day. Many car owners joined motor clubs, which organized boring regularity runs, manoeuvrability gymkhanas and navigational exercises. So for over 50 years,...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
In 1905, Europe’s racers must have thought it was going to be a flash in the pan, if that. After...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later to drivve Formula 1 for BRM, Dr. Helmut Marko takes a works Alpina BMW 1600 Ti through the bottom of the Steilstrecke test hill approaching the Karussel. Photo: Peter Collins Having...
Do you believe in the afterlife? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t – but this is a story of a...
Whitney Straight Biography Because of modern commercial, testing and fitness demands placed on current drivers many have decried the current...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25, Emerson was, at the time, the youngest champion in F1 history. Completing the double that year, Team Lotus also won the F1 Constructors Championship using the Lotus 72, or John...
In the first of a two-part series Michael Oliver examines the history of turbine-powered racecars. With the emergence of jet...
Ron Grable did not fit the normal profile of a race driver. Not only did he begin his racing after graduating from college, he raced sports cars, stock cars, formula cars, production cars, IMSA Prototypes, Trans-Am and Can-Am cars. He raced at tracks all over the United States, at Le...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have had the courage and stamina to actually follow their dream and construct one. Time and money were always the main obstacles. Building a sports racer that could compete with the...
Tony Boynton was like many teenage boys whose primary interest in cars was looking forward to the day when he...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
[Click here to read the first installment] Poland, Denmark and Norway had fallen to Nazi Germany and the blitzkrieg up through France, Holland and Belgium was just months away by the time the 1940 so-called Mille Miglia took place. Hardly a time to be thinking of pleasant pastimes like motor...
Tech—IT’S OK! by Bob Williams, Chief of Tech & Safety Inspections, Sportscar Vintage Racing Association For some race entrants, technical...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
If ever there is a breeding ground for heroes it is the Monte Carlo Rally, organized by the Automobile Club de Monaco and now celebrating its 110th anniversary. Today, the most prestigious event in the world championship is three days of high speed poker. It is played out by supermen,...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
Known more for his mercurial temper than his victories over the likes of Carraciola and Nuvolari, prewar Italian driving star Luigi Fagioli still ranks as one of the great unsung heroes of racing’s Golden Era. In this the final instalment, Robert Newman chronicles the final years of his career including...
