In motor racing we meet some very able people, and some very fine ones. It’s wonderful when they’re the same...
Recently, I was invited to a birthday party. Now, in my current life, this always translates into jumping up and...
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...
During the late ’60s and early ’70s few racecar drivers better fit the image of the playboy racer than Frenchman...
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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...
Lime Rock, CT April 12-13 The 1956 Jaguar XK140 of Ian Ross Jenkins leads the 1953 Jaguar XK120 FHC of...
Sears Point, CA March 23-24 The 1930 Morgan Super Aero of Larry Ayers. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member &...
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....
Winner of the 1956 Indianapolis 500 and Milwaukee 250, Pat Flaherty, passed away on April 6 at the age of...
In early May, 12 Formula One cars belonging to the now defunct Prost Grand Prix team were auctioned off by...
I was going through a pile of papers when I found the order of service for John Cooper’s funeral. I smiled. I have never found it possible to think of Cooper without smiling. Cooper had that effect on people. John was the public face of Cooper Cars, because he attended...
On April 7, an illustrious list of racing luminaries gathered together in Southern California to help 3-time Formula One World...
If this sounds painful, chances are good Dan Gurney would agree with you! After 20 years as a pet project,...
Ninety-six years after it was first run, the great Targa Florio road race is to have its own museum. After convening a special meeting attended by Sicily’s own 3-time winner, Nino Vaccarella, and the descendents of the race’s founder, Vincenzo Florio, the city fathers of Collesano (a town long part...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style but because of the axe painted on the side of his cars – a symbol representing his occupation as a lumber merchant. However, to racing historians he was known as...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come...
Roebling Road, GA April 4-7 The 1959 MGA of William Bartlett leads the 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite of Chris Bross. Photo:...
After one of its most successful annual meetings at Lime Rock Park last year, the Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC) will hold its national meeting this year on July 4-7 at California Speedway in Fontana. Scheduled events include vintage races, a Shelby team reunion, a local Shelby history tour and...
Unfortunately, we tend to get used to losing people who have been on the motor racing scene for many years....
Tragedy marred this year’s Walter Mitty Challenge when historic racer, car preparer and 2-time Sebring champion Bob Akin was killed...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...
July 2002 Red Arrows—Ferraris at the Mille Miglia By Giannino Marzotto There are few races in the annals of motorsport...