If you are even just slightly interested in Australian motor racing there are two Sundays of the year that are...
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 cramped legs? Is that really chicken or is it Soilient Green? Is the woman barking for us to take our seats a flight attendant or a Bulgarian prison guard? While...
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important...
The Lancia D24 was the dominant sports racing car of the mid-1950s and was driven by some of the greatest drivers in the history of road racing. It was, ironically, the last great sports racing car built by Lancia before their star-crossed entry into the world of Formula One with...
Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
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...
Willow Springs, CA April 5-6, 2003 The Datsun 240 Z of Mark Belrose. Photo: Cheryl A. Jones Become a Member...
Savannah, GA April 3-6, 2003 Start of the Monoposto race. (Left to Right) The Brabham BT29s of Bob Goeldner, Asa...
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...
Long Beach, CA April 11-13, 2003 The 1968 Ferrari 312 of Todd Morici is chased by the Williams FW08 of...
July 2003 Toyota 2000 GT—The Complete Story of Japan’s First Supercar By Shin Yoshikawa While Japanese cars are often overlooked...
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....
The original 6.6-mile Watkins Glen Grand Prix circuit has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The circuit...
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...
The rewarding, testing and unforgiving roads of Mallorca provided a mighty challenge to the 150 cars and crews who enjoyed...
Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell is no stranger to hard-fought battles but not usually on the grounds of...
At April’s HSR Walter Mitty race weekend, historic racer Duncan Dayton established a new Road Atlanta track record when he and his ex-Jacques Villeneuve 1995 Reynard Indy car posted a 1:11.366 lap time. The previous lap record was held by Allan McNish driving an Audi LMP900....
Former IMSA World Sports Car champion and FIA WSC C2 champion Fermin Velez lost his battle with cancer on March...
American racing pioneer John Fitch’s contributions to Lime Rock Park, (and sports car racing in general) will be recognized when...
1975 Eagle 755 F5000 Photo: Casey Annis In 1967, the SCCA began a fledgling “professional” category for open-wheel formula cars known as Formula A. The idea was to provide a series of five races, open to F3, F2 and 3-liter F1 cars, with each race having its own $5,000 purse....
Whitney Straight Biography Because of modern commercial, testing and fitness demands placed on current drivers many have decried the current...
Back in the 1960s, if you raced or rallied an Austin Mini Cooper, you would have met and probably been...
Two month’s ago, I wrote in this space about my misuse, misappropriation and general mis-handling of my grand-father’s tools in my formative years (When do those end? my wife asks.) Well, much to my pleasant surprise, I must have struck a chord because I have received more feedback and response...
I raced at Le Man, 13 times, and each time it was a good one. It was especially good when...
In the summer of 1980, I was at Goodwood for a test session. Before I reached the pits, I bumped...
Matra Automobile, a name synonymous with French racing heritage, will cease to exist according to a German news source. Founded by the SA Engins Matra engineering firm in October 1964, Matra Sports brought French aviation technology to motorsports, culminating in F2 and F3 championships, a Formula One championship in 1969...
