If this sounds painful, chances are good Dan Gurney would agree with you! After 20 years as a pet project,...
On April 7, an illustrious list of racing luminaries gathered together in Southern California to help 3-time Formula One World...
Tragedy marred this year’s Walter Mitty Challenge when historic racer, car preparer and 2-time Sebring champion Bob Akin was killed while driving a 1988 Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo during a Friday practice session. Details of the accident are still not entirely clear, but apparently Akin was being overtaken by another GTP...
In early May, 12 Formula One cars belonging to the now defunct Prost Grand Prix team were auctioned off by...
After one of its most successful annual meetings at Lime Rock Park last year, the Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC)...
American motorsports lost one of its most colorful early postwar road racers when Boris “Bob” Said passed away in March at the age of 69. Said got his start in motorsport when he talked his way into racing an MGTD at Thompson Speedway in 1951, at the age of 18....
Unfortunately, we tend to get used to losing people who have been on the motor racing scene for many years....
Ninety-six years after it was first run, the great Targa Florio road race is to have its own museum. After...
Winner of the 1956 Indianapolis 500 and Milwaukee 250, Pat Flaherty, passed away on April 6 at the age of 76. Born George Francis Patrick Flaherty in 1926, Flaherty began racing in California shortly after World War II and ran his first Indy 500, in 1950, finishing 10th. Flaherty’s big...
During the late ’60s and early ’70s few racecar drivers better fit the image of the playboy racer than Frenchman...
July 2002 Red Arrows—Ferraris at the Mille Miglia By Giannino Marzotto There are few races in the annals of motorsport...
Sears Point, CA March 23-24 The 1930 Morgan Super Aero of Larry Ayers. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Roebling Road, GA April 4-7 The 1959 MGA of William Bartlett leads the 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite of Chris Bross. Photo:...
Lime Rock, CT April 12-13 The 1956 Jaguar XK140 of Ian Ross Jenkins leads the 1953 Jaguar XK120 FHC of...
Paris, France April 16-20 The Ferrari Daytona (s/n 15685) of Slavic and Slavic sits between a GT 40 and the Alpine A110 of Jean Ragnotti at Paris’ Place du Trocadéro. Photo: Thierry Lesparre Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
In motor racing we meet some very able people, and some very fine ones. It’s wonderful when they’re the same...
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Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for the Swiss Grand Prix (1948). 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for team Penske’s first Champ Car win (1971). Become a Member & Get...
I was going through a pile of papers when I found the order of service for John Cooper’s funeral. I...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come true for a kid from Port Henry, New York. Our recent success at the Daytona 24-Hours in the Ferrari 312P NART proved the car had the strength and integrity required...
Recently, I was invited to a birthday party. Now, in my current life, this always translates into jumping up and...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the pinnacle of motorsport…and an untimely death. July 11 marks 31 years since Pedro Rodriguez took part in what a number of writers subsequently called a “meaningless Interseries race” at the...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style...
