Kiwi racing star Graham McRae, who competed in F1, F5000 and the Indianapolis 500, was hospitalized on September 2, after...
1956 Ferrari 500 TR Prototype I have to confess that we sometimes get very carried away by some of the...
I have just watched “The Italian Job,” the 1969 original. At the time of writing, the remake has not hit Britain, but it makes the movie topical. When the remake was first mooted, the retro Beetle was pencilled in to take the starring role originally created by the Mini Cooper....
My involveent with Ford goes back a long way and includes some of their most interesting racing projects. Before I...
From 1954–1967, Wilmot Hills Raceway, in Wilmot, Wisconsin, played host to a wide variety of road races. Built by the...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Famous host of “The Tonight Show”, Jay Leno, recently made an appearance at VARA’s Goldenstate Classic race at Fontana driving...
Bobby Rahal has won more Champ Car races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as a driver and team owner than...
Brazilian Nelson Soutomaior, perhaps fortunately for race commentators, adopted his mother’s maiden name of Piquet when he arrived in Europe in 1977. Within a decade the fun-loving driver had won no less than three World Championships (1981, 1983 and 1987) with three different engine manufacturers (Ford, BMW and Honda). Unfortunately,...
It was another good year to be at the Goodwood Revival…sunshine for four days, some of the best racing in...
Peter Bryant’s colorful career spans nearly three decades of motorsport and includes time spent working in Formula One, sports car and Indy cars. However Bryant is perhaps best remembered for his time in the Can-Am, where he designed the famous Titanium Ti22 that proved tantalizingly fast in the early ’70s....
A firsthand look at the inner workings Of Ferrari by race team manager Romolo Tavoni, as told to Chris Nixon...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
Keeping a promise to America’s Porsche owners and racing fans made in 2001, Porsche Cars North America, in conjunction with Brian Redman and his Intercontinental Events, Inc., recently announced the Porsche Rennsport Reunion II, to be held April 23–25, 2004, at Daytona International Speedway, the home of Porsche’s first overall...
Goodwood Revival Period dress is mandatory in the paddock—good taste, well… Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Audi Tradition—the division responsible for preserving the brand’s colorful automotive heritage—has just undertaken its most complex restoration project since the...
Silverstone, UK August 30 The 1926 Bentley 3-Liter of Robin Hine. Photo: Peter Collins 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 all our...
December 2003 Lotus 72—Formula One Icon By Michael Oliver In the current era of Formula One, today’s frontrunners will be...
In September, I had the good fortune to be able to attend this year’s Goodwood Revival. I had never been...
Some of you model makers, I know, and probably you historic artists too, have been wondering why Jo Siffert’s 1971 Can-Am Porsche, which normally was painted all Day-Glo red, had blue trim on its nose for a couple of races mid-season. At long last I can tell you why. That’s...
Pittsburgh, PA The big 1953 Allard J2X of Alan Patterson. Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get...