1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible log of race winners from 1895–2009. www.racemaker.com • (617) 723-6533 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
“My name is Casey; and I’m a recovering Triumph owner.” Or at least that’s how I’ve felt for a number...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds. Yet it was one that had been hovering about in my subconscious for years, though I never took the trouble to find out who the hell he was. Then Renault...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed...
Like most racing drivers, I’ve driven many cars in my career, choosing just one as a greatest racecar is an...
Twenty-five years ago, a company called Amstrad launched an inexpensive word processor. The package was crude, each three-inch disk held only 157K RAM, though on both sides. The operating program had to be loaded every time it was switched on, and you still had to send your copy by post,...
The Scene: The #25 factory BMW CSL is well known for its rich racing history and many race wins. Epic...
December 2010 Driving his unique Zerex Special, a converted Cooper Formula One car, Roger Penske was a force in sports...
In 1958, former Huntington Park High School friends Larry Kent and Ray Weaver decided to take a shot at the C Sports Car record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Racing under the banner “Northern Continent Engineering” and gunning for George Hanson’s class record of 144.322 mph, Kent sped to a...
Harry A. Miller Bobby Allison 1 Dan Gurney drives a Weslake Ford-powered Eagle to victory in the USAC Championship race...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights, and various safety requirements. However, there...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
Donington Park, Castle Donington/UK September 3–5, 2010 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...
Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire/UK August 21–22, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Winton Raceway, Winton, Victoria/Australia August 14–15, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL July 24–25, 2010 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...
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA July 24–25, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA June 25–27, 2010 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...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was...
With the holiday season hard upon us once again, we thought it would be a good idea to take a...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG race. Thirty-three MGs—of all ages and models from MGTCs to MGB-GT V8s—turned out for this year’s race on The Glen’s 3.4-mile road course, thrilling thousands of spectators and MG enthusiasts....
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
HSCC unveils 2-liter sports-racing car series The golden era of 2-liter sports racing cars in the 1970s will be brought...
Peter Warr, who will be best remembered as the man who served as team manager for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus Formula One team and kept the operation running in the wake of Chapman’s death, has himself passed away at his home in France following a heart attack on October 4....
