The Petersen Automotive Museum in Southern California is arguably one of the finest museums of its type anywhere in the...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years – Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits...
Vic Edelbrock In the late 1930s, Vic Edelbrock Senior started up his automotive business in a small way, in a small garage on Los Angeles’ 3rd and La Brea. He did tune-ups and general auto repair, and on the side, he raced various cars at the dry lakebeds just east...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
Dan Gerber started racing in midwest SCCA events in an Austin-Healey in 1961, while in 1962 he also started racing...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s also participated in many forms of motorsport, from Speedway Bikes to Daimler Dart sports cars to driving in, and winning, the first Shell Oil-sponsored cross-Canada Rally, the 4,000-mile Shell 4000,...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
As if plucked straight from an edition of “Boy’s Own Annual” Tony Gaze competed at Brooklands in the ’30s, flew a Spitfire during World War II, raced in Formula One and sports cars during the 1950s and eventually went on to represent Australia in gliding. Our Australian correspondent, Patrick Quinn,...
Don Nichols Don Nichols is one of only three Americans ever to field a winning car in a World Championship...
Mike Jiggle speaks with the Australian legend about his long career, his tough guy approach and the red underpants that...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of a new wave of industrial design. Avro Aviation engineer James C. Floyd had come up with the CF 105 Avro Arrow, a 1500-mph delta-winged fighter aircraft, and Bill Sadler had...
He is, after all, Mario Andretti, one of the most accomplished racing drivers of all time, the only man to...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Richard Attwood started his racing career in 1960 driving a Triumph TR3, but by 1963 had won the Monaco Formula Junior race and was a fast rising star. Success in Formula Two saw Attwood quickly move up to Formula One, with BRM in 1964, but the following years in F1...
John Cordts is a quiet, modest man, which is likely the reason why many fans of the sport are not...
Peter Bryant’s colorful career spans nearly three decades of motorsport and includes time spent working in Formula One, sports car...
John Zeitler – driver, engine builder, racecar designer and manufacturer – had a racing career spanning over 20 years, most of it involved with Volkswagen-powered cars. Casey Annis recently spoke with Zeitler to find out how it all came about. VRJ: How did you get started in racing? Zeitler: In...
Tony Parella They say there is no greater zealot, than a recent convert. Though he came to the sport fairly...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put the Porsche name firmly in motor racing record books as a marque to be respected and feared. In 1970, together with Richard Attwood—some would say a most unlikely pairing—and from...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
American racer Jim Busby started his racing career, like most California k3ids, in hot rods and drag racing. However, in the coming years he would make the rare transition to road racing and would go on to become a two-time winner at Le Mans. Casey Annis recently spoke with him...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Our European editor, Ed McDonough, had the great fortune to spend the better part of a week with the great all-round rally and race star, (as well as Sebring and Targa Florio winner) on the Giro de Sicilia, a place much loved by Elford, where he is revered nearly as...
John Coombs was literally born into the motoring business, as his multi-talented craftsman father was already working with automobiles when...
Lorina Boughton McLaughlin was the first woman to ever win the “Man of the Meeting” Award given regularly by BP...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...