Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW, Australia December 5–7, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
March 2009 Maserati 300S By Walter Bäumer Maserati’s 300S is one of the great machines that helped make sports car...
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...
North Cotswold, UK November 22, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
March 2009 The Portuguese Grand Prix; Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Shortly before the race Phil Hill and Ferrari’s chief designer...
The revival of one of history’s most popular production car-based series, the fabled SCCA Trans-Am, is in the works for 2009. Plans to resuscitate the sport sedan series that was euthanized after its 40th season in 2005 were announced at mid-December’s Performance Racing Industry trade show in Orlando, Florida. The...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled...
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...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley and Bugatti, while also celebrating the 100th anniversaries of both Audi and Morgan, and highlighting the designs of Ugo Zagato. The Concours will be preceded by a string of complementary...
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes in the 1940s. Jaguars were his entry into 4-wheel competition, winning 23 times from 24 starts. His motor racing exploits were as diverse as they were successful. He was a...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Sandown Circuit, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia November 7-9, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded race program for 2009 consisting of four events at tracks across the United States. The first of these will run May 16-17 at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California (with CSRG),...
Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix, AZ November 21-22, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
I read a statistic the other day that totally floored me. In the United States, less than 10% of the...
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...
Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, UK October 25, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Sebring International Raceway, FL December 4-7, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Don Blenderman is koo-koo for Kurtis cars. And why not? Frank Kurtis is arguably the greatest American racecar builder of all time. His career spanned four decades, and his cars regularly dominated the competition. The Kurtis midget was the car to have in the ‘30s and ‘40s, and the lovely...
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...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as “True Grit—Epic Feats of Endurance” to celebrate the drive and determination of motor racing’s heroes who overcame huge physical, mental, and mechanical barriers in their quest for glory. Jackie Stewart’s...