2011 Jaguar XKR Coupe & Convertible In this the 50th year of the hallowed E-Type, it seemed only too fitting to take a...
Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at...
Mallala Motorsports Park, South Australia April 23–24, 2011 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...
Pete Lyons Have you ever crushed an aluminum can, then found yourself wondering, “Could I straighten it back out, like...
The Jaguar marque celebrates two anniversaries in 2011. The E-Type is 50 years old, while 60 years have passed since...
I was involved with the E-Type Jaguar right from its inception, initially as an employee under the wing of Lofty England. Following my discharge from National Service in the RAF, I had some deferred service to complete, I met Lofty at the 1959 Le Mans 24-hour race—he offered me a...
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA April 29–May 1, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The organizers very wisely had the foresight to provide off-track entertainment, the most popular of which were 16 sessions of...
Some 45 years after making headlines at the Monte Carlo Rallye, the iconic Mini name is back on the World Rally Championship stage. Recently launched at the Mini spiritual home at Cowley, Oxford, England, the Mini John Cooper Works WRC team made its racing debut at the Rally d’Italia Sardegna...
A million clichés come to mind. Giant killer is probably the worst, pummelled to death by a thousand newspaper hacks,...
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA April 9–10, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The documentary film Senna, which won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is set for release in the United States this August, with debuts in New York and Los Angeles scheduled for August 12, and a more general release to follow. First shown in...
A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Sir Stirling Moss, 81, came in from practice for the Le Mans Legends race on June 8, and said, “That is the last time I will be in a racing car.” Moss was out in his own Porsche RS 61, which he had previously crashed at Laguna Seca last August....
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, IN May 13, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The year was 1980; the place, Road Atlanta. During the parade lap, Motor Racing Network’s sportscaster Mike Joy set the...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one of the richest of these competition records belongs to Jaguar. In North America, much of that history has been written by Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Inc. Commencing with an SCCA...
Though the historic racing experts felt it was a bit of a risk to stage a historic festival at the...
I remember my first encounter with John Winter. I called him John, “My name’s Spike! Call me Spike,” he said....
At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in June 1963. Americans Briggs Cunningham and Bob Grossman drove this Cunningham-entered, works-supported Jaguar E-Type to a 9th place finish, runner-up in the over-3-liter GT class. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 13–15, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E. Young, has recently received a gift from the foundation of founder Robert E. Petersen that has been valued at a stratospheric $100 million. Included are the 300,000 sq. ft. building...
As one of only 16 ever produced, the 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” that headlines Mecum Auctions’ offerings during this...
Donington Park, Castle Donington/UK April 30–May 1, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50 years of the E-Type Jaguar or, as some of you know it better, the XKE. It’s a bit unsettling to find myself being unphased by remembering things that happened 50...
John Coombs was literally born into the motoring business, as his multi-talented craftsman father was already working with automobiles when...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas (1976). 3 Giuseppi Campari drives an Alfa Romeo to victory in the European Grand Prix at Lyon, France (1924). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
