Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with...
Vintage Racecar Features
During the coming months, Sports Car Digest will be running a series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive...
Scuderia Ferrari made its debut in the Formula 1 World Championship on May 21st, 1950, on the very same circuit that winds its way through the Principality of Monaco and which this coming Sunday, hosts the sixth round of the 2012 World Championship. There were four Ferraris entered in the...
By Art Evans | Photos as credited All of us have lost one of the dominant figures of the post-WWII...
By William Edgar | Photographs Edgar Motorsport Archive Carroll Shelby, as he himself would say, has gone horizontal. He died...
By Art Evans What is the foremost racing series in the world? If you said Formula One, you are in the company of most other enthusiasts. The series consists of a yearly Grand Prix in each participating country (although in a few instances, there was more than one). Even though...
The author found the Amon AF101 quite enjoyable to drive at Donington, now that it has been extensively developed—note particularly...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
You’ll probably get stopped at some point and have to pay off the cops. You will almost certainly have to weld something at what would have been your lunch stop. Your kidneys will be bruised, you might get stuck in the sand, and by the time you make it to...
By Art Evans | Photos as credited On the morning of April 18, 2012, I received a call that Andy...
Renngruppe Rendezvous By Louis Scalzo | Photos by Tom Morgan Renngruppe Motorsports is located in Lexington, North Carolina in a industrial park area looking like a very ordinary brick fronted metal building, blending in with all the others in the area. When you enter the spacious facility, formerly home of...
Interview by Dennis Gray | Photos by Gray unless noted Jon Shirley makes good decisions whether finding and buying one-off...
“At this time there is nothing in the world any quicker, any better handling, any more advanced technically, or any...
Boy Meets Car, Loses Car, Finds Car By Steve Smith | Photographs as credited Every car guy has the automotive equivalent of the fisherman’s “the one that got away” story (“It was this big! Really!”). The car of a lifetime…loved and lost. Some car guys even have two such tales....
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin...
The finned Cunningham D-Types of Walt Hansgen and Sherwood Johnston, wait with Duncan Forlong’s AC/Bristol and Curtis Attaway’s XK-120.Photo: Bob...
Bruce Burness is one of those multi-talented behind-the-scenes players who lend so much richness to the world of motorsports, possessing not only the gift of clarity when working on the cars, but the enduring competitive spirit so common among those who make a difference in our sport. His secret seems...
Sebring in 1973 was the beginning of a new era for the legendary track. The Alec Ulmann era had ended...
By Art Evans What do you think was the toughest and most difficult race ever? After reading my September 2011...
Alan Mann, who died on March 21, 2012 at the age of 75, was a highly successful motor racing team owner who played a key role in the Ford Motor Company’s worldwide Total Performance programme of the 1960s. Alan Mann Racing, based in Byfleet, UK won numerous major championships including...
The 12 Hours of Sebring was held March 17, 2012 at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. The 60th anniversary...
Sam Hanks may have been a quiet man who preferred to keep to himself, but at the wheel of a...
Involved with mechancial things virtually all his life, John Barnard first worked in racing at Lola, then a fertile training ground for many men who would impact racecar design. Upon “graduating” from Lola he went to work alongside Gordon Coppuck at McLaren to develop the M23. In 1975 he joined the...
By Art Evans The Tourist Trophy is the oldest motor race in the world still being run. The first was...
By Bob Harmeyer Sebring International Raceway, located on a former Army Air Force base situated among the orange groves of...
Aston Martin and Zagato have collaborated on several automobiles, starting with the famed Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato up to the current Aston Martin V12 Zagato. This long-standing relationship has resulted, over 50 years, in an well-known series of collectible cars. All the Aston Martins designed by Zagato were created...
The Eppie Wietzes F5000 Championship-winning McLaren M-10B By Kevin Triplett | Photos by Dennis Gray From his earliest days as...
“Dear editors – The new Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (Super Light) sports car will complete test drives in public for the...
By William Edgar | Photographs as Credited It was July 19, 1974 that I really got to know John Young Stewart, even though I’d already met and worked with him several years before that British Grand Prix Friday practice day riding with him in a chauffeured Daimler out to Brands...
