Third-time charm! That’s what we Can-Am fans were hoping for 40 Septembers ago. On the first of this month in...
Attendees at this year’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone were drawn by celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the British...
Tasmania, Australia April 28–May 3,2008 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 premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner products. Enjoy...
My greatest racecar has to come from my Formula One experience. Every part of an F1 car is designed to...
From May 27 to July 3, Lime Rock Park underwent a major transformation. Not only was the original 7-turn configuration...
Upon his return from service with the Navy during WWII, Joe MacPherson took a job selling magazines door-to-door and, legend has it, so impressed one customer with his sales ability that he was offered a job selling cars for the man’s dealership. Those abilities soon led MacPherson to open his...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
Mercedes-Benz rocked Donington Park with its mighty “Silver Arrow” confrontation with Auto Union in 1937 and 1938. Back then, the British crowds were simply stunned by the sight, sound and smell of the mighty racers, and a bit of that magic returned to the same facility when the Vintage Sports...
Denny Hulme Biography Denny Hulme was born on June 18, 1936 in Motueka, on the South Island of New Zealand....
September 2008 Abarth–The Man, The Machines By Luciano Greggio As outlined in this month’s feature article (pg. 52), over the...
Melbourne, Australia March 8,2008 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 premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner products. Enjoy our...
Foretelling the future is impossible, yet that is what executives in car companies have to do. When I was a...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
As a way to thank local resident and international racing driver Sam Posey for his lifelong contributions to Lime Rock Park, track owner Skip Barber gave Sam the honor of driving the first laps around the newly repaved and reconfigured circuit when it officially opened on July 4th. “I feel...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 16–18, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Three cars from the entry list for the first French Grand Prix in 1908 were recently reunited at the Vintage...
Silverstone Circuit, UK May 10–11, 2008 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 premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner products....
Just as we were going to press last month, we learned of the …..tragic death of historic racer Dino Crescentini,...
The Centennial Anniversary of the Great Savannah Races will be celebrated at this fall’s Seventh Annual Hilton Head Island Concours...
Laguna Seca, CA May 16–18, 2008 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 premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner products....
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
On winter’s final weekend in the Southern Hemisphere, September 20-21, the Veloce Racing Association will hold its second annual East...
Sicily, Italy May25–June2, 2008 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 premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner products. Enjoy our...
When in last month’s review of his latest book we referred to Bernard Cahier as F1’s original photojournalist, we used...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Infineon Raceway, CA May 31–June 1, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
There’s always been something magical about the H-Modified cars of the ’50s and early ’60s. These 750-cc (and later 850-cc)...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy eight years later. It was September 3, 1967, at Road America, when his Can-Am team began a five-year run of dominance in the fastest kind of road racing the world...