August 2010 Headed for a 2nd-place finish in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, on June 23, 1963, Dan Gurney...
The early post-war interest in small displacement automobile racing in Europe was fueled by enthusiasm and petrol rationing. Money was...
August 2010 The First Ralt? Photo: Pete Austin Dear Editor, Have just been reading the magazine, which I had never seen before. Great read. Thought I would make a small point of correction regarding the Ralt reference on page 53 [Feb 2010]. Ron Tauranac actually built the first RALT in, I think,...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls, Motschenbachers, Parsonses, Poseys, Rodriguezes, Sifferts, many more…none of them ever won a race. How surprising is it that so much talent came up so dry? Pete Lyons Frankly, not that...
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August 2010 Formula III Racing In North America By Harry Reynolds This is the book a small band of believers...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
Aficionados of the Elva marque will celebrate its 55th Anniversary with a reunion at Elkhart Lake’s Road America on the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association race weekend scheduled for September 10-12. Apart from enjoying the gathering of Elvas of all shapes and sizes, attendees will also be able to partake...
Warm and sunny weather greeted the 375 entries that took part in General Racing’s Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Infineon...
Leslie Alan Richter was born on October 26, 1930 in Fresno, California. He graduated from Fresno High School where he...
A rare, “pontoon-fendered” Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa will headline RM Auctions’s 25th Anniversary Sports and Classics of Monterey event during Auto Week this August. The Scaglietti-designed TR is one of the most prized Ferraris ever, with only 21 built during a two-year run in 1957-’58. This car, chassis number 0738...
In addition to the event’s tribute to Dan Gurney, attendees at August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to...
Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, will feature consignments of three exceptional collector...
Among the offerings at its annual auction at Quail Lodge during Monterey Auto Week, Bonhams will present the Michael Amalfitano Collection of rare competition Porsches. Included in this group are: a 917 that began life as an endurance racing coupe, driven at Le Mans in 1970 by David Hobbs and...
With June’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Corvette marked the 50th anniversary of its first participation in...
Jackie Stewart once said: “If, for some reason, I could only take part in one race each season, it would...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even qualifying a stream of uncompetitive cars to becoming the 1982 Formula One World Champion the minute he had reliable machinery with which to lay his talent bare. I first met...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a...
In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his effort at Indianapolis. The Shelby Indycar was one of the famous, or infamous if you will, turbine-powered cars. Here’s how it came about. Turbines had been tried at Indy before,...
