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I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney,...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what is the sound of one hand clapping? In the historic racing world, the Buddhist acolyte might ask, “When does the recreation of history become, itself, history?” This notion seems to...
In 1953, Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt won Le Mans in this Jaguar C Type, the last remaining one of...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown,...
Justly famous for corners such as the Corkscrew and Andretti (a.k.a. Turn 2), plain-named Turn Six is actually one of the more important corners at this world-famous track. As you’ll remember from “Racecar Driving 101,” good lap times are based on straightaway speeds. Straightaway speeds are based on corner exit...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One,...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in Grand Prix races but they often don’t recall that I did my time in the Tipo 33 sports cars. The start was at Daytona with the 2-liter car in 1968....
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
The sun shone on the principality of Monaco for the Monaco Historic Grand Prix on May 10–11, but at times...
Vintage racer Dino Crescentini, from Rochester Hills in suburban Detroit, was killed when his Wolf-Dallara Can-Am car crashed during the 29th Vintage Automobile Association of Canada Festival at Mosport on June 22. According to various reports, Crescentini’s car apparently lost its front downforce while following closely behind another car on...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar...
French Grand Prix; Dijon-Prenois, July 1,1979. Mario Andretti with the unhappy Lotus 80. It was not a success, and the...
Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his drawings for a straight-8 1,500-cc voiturette to the Alfa headquarters near Milan back in January 1936. And as the design began to take shape, Alfa placed on standby drivers like...
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The new Group C Racing series held its inaugural races at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, Belgium, in May. This new series...
Take a James Bond girl, a double Formula One World Champion, the mayor of Moscow, a fashion mogul, and the...
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On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see how it all started. The date was August 10, 1974. August 10 that year fell on a Saturday. There was no Sunday racing even though California has no “blue laws”...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never...
For as long as he can remember, James Peacock of Long Beach, California, has been afflicted with a palate for...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on Queen Elizabeth II’s latest birthday honors list. The son of a sidecar racer from Surrey, Surtees originally raced motorcycles for...