Don Blenderman is koo-koo for Kurtis cars. And why not? Frank Kurtis is arguably the greatest American racecar builder of...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9. A broad collection of Bentleys of all vintages will take to the track to honor the continuous run of annual BDC events held at the Northamptonshire circuit since 1949. Anchoring...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance racing’s Big Three signature events, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is also one of just two to...
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...
March 2009 The Portuguese Grand Prix; Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Shortly before the race Phil Hill and Ferrari’s chief designer Carlo Chiti exchange views while Dan Gurney listens. At Hill’s left stands Ferrari’s mechanical éminence gris Cav. Luigi Bazzi. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get...
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s farm near Freiburg, Germany, for a day’s hunting. Hitler never forgot his day out and, after taking power on January 30, 1933, telephoned Stuck, who had been bemoaning the lack...
Gyndier Drive, Tewantin, Queensland, Australia November 15-16, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix, AZ November 21-22, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW, Australia December 5–7, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can keep gnawing on you ’til finally you just gotta explode? That’s what I’ve been nursing ever since a NASCAR telecast last year, when I heard announcer Darrell Waltrip say something...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
March 2009 Maserati 300S By Walter Bäumer Maserati’s 300S is one of the great machines that helped make sports car racing in the mid-1950s a golden age, and this new book chronicles the shapely model’s story from conception to creation to competition. Beyond his insightful look at the overall development...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
I read a statistic the other day that totally floored me. In the United States, less than 10% of the population knows how to drive a manual transmission. Wow, only one out of every ten people is capable of driving a car with a stick shift? To me, that’s like...
The revival of one of history’s most popular production car-based series, the fabled SCCA Trans-Am, is in the works for...
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...