Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine a time when private individuals paid these expenses. Wealthy enthusiasts such as Lindsey Hopkins (a Florida investment banker), John Edgar (a California industrialist), Joe Lubin (a California tractor parts dealer),...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
I read a statistic the other day that totally floored me. In the United States, less than 10% of the...
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember that. First bicycle? Ditto. A boy’s first By Golly Racing Victory? That’ll do just fine. Toly Arutunoff I was going to my dozenth race and so, thoroughly steeped in the...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes...
March 2009 The Portuguese Grand Prix; Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Shortly before the race Phil Hill and Ferrari’s chief designer...
Turn 7 at the newly opened New Jersey Motorsports Park Lightning course is as pivotal as it is exciting. It is entered flat in top gear from under the paddock access overpass, and to get it wrong is an absolute defeat to even the best of laps. One of the...
Don Blenderman is koo-koo for Kurtis cars. And why not? Frank Kurtis is arguably the greatest American racecar builder of...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several F1 teams, is born (1956). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda president and CEO, is born (1936). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW, Australia December 5–7, 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...
Sebring International Raceway, FL December 4-7, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
North Cotswold, UK November 22, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix, AZ November 21-22, 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...
Gyndier Drive, Tewantin, Queensland, Australia November 15-16, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Sandown Circuit, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia November 7-9, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, UK October 25, 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...
March 2009 Maserati 300S By Walter Bäumer Maserati’s 300S is one of the great machines that helped make sports car...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its 2009 “Focus Event.” MGVR will support SVRA in having “All MG” races as part of the event, along with an MG-Morgan Challenge, as SVRA celebrates the “Centenary Celebration of Morgans.”...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
For the past quarter century, Bob Carlson was the face of Porsche public relations in North America, a friend and...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled to open its gates in late March with an appreciation event for those who have helped get the track up and running. High Plains Raceway represents the reaction of a...
