Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and...
The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today be regarded as Formula One cars. They were simplistic but reliable in construction, with independent front suspension, de Dion rear suspension, and tubular chassis. Many builders experimented with multi-tubes, but...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as...
John Rice produced a series of a dozen watercolor paintings for a show celebrating memorable moments at Watkins Glen, with this particular example depicting Bruce McLaren winning the 1969 Watkins Glen Can-Am in his all-conquering M8B. The M8Bs won every race on the Can-Am schedule that year as the “Bruce...
May 2010 Near the Lancia Factory; Turin, March 1954. Piero Taruffi seems pleased after a test of the Lancia D24...
Veda and Karl Orr are legendary Hot Rodders. They were among the early racers who took to the dry lakes...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Pete Lyons The year was 1970. The year the ground turned over under America’s greatest sports racing car series. It began in tragedy, and improved little. Bruce McLaren, the sunny New Zealander who had stamped the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series as his own, and who would have reigned as series...
Daytona International, Daytona Beach, FL January 30, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL December 3–6, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by the factory for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg all still exist, and mostly in original form. Equally amazing is this publication by Australian historian Neville Webb into the...
Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you...
British racing legend Sir Stirling Moss is recuperating after a three-story fall down the elevator shaft in his London home...
David Uihlein, founder of the Harry A. Miller Club and a dedicated historian of the Miller marque, passed away January 29th of natural causes at his home in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon. An executive in the brewing industry as well as the owner of Banner Welder Co., Mr. Uihlein...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) have agreed to end their decade-long alliance. A consequent...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the...
After 36 seasons, time seems finally to have caught up with Formula Atlantic. We are saddened to report that the most prolific training category in American open-wheel racing history appears to have run its course. Current series owner Ben Johnston recently announced that “due to the downturn in the global...
The Registry devoted to the American-made sports racing cars from Bobsy has been rejuvenated with a new comprehensive website, www.BobsyRegistry.com....
A one-of-a-kind BMW 328 will headline RM’s inaugural Sporting Classics of Monaco auction at the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality...
The second annual Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion has been scheduled for June 28-30 on Ohio’s South Bass Island. The island, home to road racing on its public roads between 1952 and 1959 (as well as in 1963), is offshore in Lake Erie, a 30-minute ferry ride north of Catawba Island,...
As Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was growing and expanding a quarter century ago, one of the ways it sought...
Octane Racing Group, promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, has announced that Historic Grand Prix will provide one of the supporting events at this year’s Formula One World Championship race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on the weekend of June 11–13. “We are pleased to bring back to...
