At April’s HSR Walter Mitty race weekend, historic racer Duncan Dayton established a new Road Atlanta track record when he...
On April 24, at HSR’s Road Atlanta “Mitty” event, Jaguar North America pulled the wraps off of a pair of...
On April 11-13, the streets of Long Beach, California once again reverberated to the sound of a full field of Formula One cars when the Historic Grand Prix (HGP) group served as the main support race for this year’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. It had been exactly 20...
Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell is no stranger to hard-fought battles but not usually on the grounds of...
American racing pioneer John Fitch’s contributions to Lime Rock Park, (and sports car racing in general) will be recognized when...
Birmingham, AL March 27-30, 2003 The 1975 Porsche 911 RSR of Ron Barnaba enters Turn 13. Photo: Walter Pietrowicz 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...
Vic Edelbrock In the late 1930s, Vic Edelbrock Senior started up his automotive business in a small way, in a...
At 30,000 feet, questions begin to crystallize like ice on the wing… Will the circulation ever return to my hopelessly...
Anyone who saw the terrifying tape of Mario Andretti’s 200-mph “blowover” at Indianapolis on April 23rd will easily visualize the same guy booting Duncan Dayton’s Lotus 79 around Long Beach 11 days earlier. No, happily, the historic F1 car came back unscathed. But Mario, a racer of legendary stature, sure...
Former IMSA World Sports Car champion and FIA WSC C2 champion Fermin Velez lost his battle with cancer on March...
If you are even just slightly interested in Australian motor racing there are two Sundays of the year that are always marked in your diary. Days when you tell the kids you’re busy and they should leave you alone under pain of death or at least a large reduction in...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
The Lancia D24 was the dominant sports racing car of the mid-1950s and was driven by some of the greatest...
The rewarding, testing and unforgiving roads of Mallorca provided a mighty challenge to the 150 cars and crews who enjoyed the Trofeo Baleares in March. Based near the capital Palma, four days provided competitors with 11 stages and a race-circuit finale. By far the most spectacular stage was Sa Calobra...
July 2003 Toyota 2000 GT—The Complete Story of Japan’s First Supercar By Shin Yoshikawa While Japanese cars are often overlooked...
Long Beach, CA April 11-13, 2003 The 1968 Ferrari 312 of Todd Morici is chased by the Williams FW08 of...
Carlo Abarth started his own car company in 1949 after taking over what was left of the Cisitalia company. In the following years, Abarth built a virtual automotive empire on the sale of aftermarket performance parts for Fiat-based cars and the limited production of small displacement sports and racing cars....
Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
Savannah, GA April 3-6, 2003 Start of the Monoposto race. (Left to Right) The Brabham BT29s of Bob Goeldner, Asa...
Willow Springs, CA April 5-6, 2003 The Datsun 240 Z of Mark Belrose. Photo: Cheryl A. Jones 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...
1968 Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR Variations on a theme – that’s the one-liner which always comes to mind when encountering an...
The original 6.6-mile Watkins Glen Grand Prix circuit has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The circuit...
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important leadership positions in the competition, research and development departments at Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia. He is a Commissioner of the CSAI in Italy, rep to the FIA, and continues...