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Of course, my dad gave me the talent to become a racing driver and he helped me a lot. He...
Following two years of planning and assistance from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas Speed Week Revival will take place from November 30 to December 4. Event organizers have already received more than 40 firm entries for the week-long Festival. Opening ceremonies will be on Wednesday, November 30, at...
Chris Bender scored back-to-back Historic Grand Prix victories with his March 821-Cosworth on consecutive July weekends, winning the feature races...
The organizers of July’s Silverstone Classic are claiming to have brought together the biggest gathering of Grand Prix cars ever...
The third annual New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing will take place next January 20-22 and 27-29 at the superb Hampton Downs circuit, and the event will celebrate a carmaker for the first time. Festival organizers have decided to focus the spotlight on German manufacturer BMW, so that the NZFMR...
Chic Vandagriff’s influence can be seen in many chapters of the history of motor racing in the United States. One...
As the 38th annual vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rolled to a close, the circuit’s general manager,...
Vernasca, Italy June 24–25, 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 partner products. Enjoy...
After 7,241 miles accumulated across nineteen states, John Nikas and his battered 1953 Austin Healey 100 rolled across the stage...
Sebring, March 21, 1981. The grid for the 12 Hours pulls out for the warmup lap, led by the fastest...
A.J. Foyt has been named Grand Marshall for next January’s 50th Anniversary running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The fabled Texan won the race twice, in 1983 and 1985, but perhaps a more relevant distinction is that he led the opening lap of the inaugural race in 1962—when it...
As you’ll read throughout this issue, in honor of this month’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV, we’re paying our own tribute...
It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the...
Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, Milwaukee, WI July 8–9, 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...
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Prior to 1980, I had raced in the United States on a few occasions—I’d done Daytona two or three times...
Lotus Bashing? Photo: Pete Austin Dear Editor, OK, we get it, Mike Lawrence doesn’t like Colin Chapman. Like all critics, Lawrence...
Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and eight 12-hour wins at Sebring, and upon all of them can be found the fingerprints of Norbert Singer. A 30-year-old graduate engineer with a Masters in Mechanical Engineer, Aviation...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of...
This original water color painting by Uli Ehret shows the IMSA GTX class Porsche 911 RSR driven by Larry Perkins, Gordon Spice and John Rulon-Miller, braking into Mulsanne Corner during the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Charles Ivey Engineering team Porsche finished 14th overall and 2nd in class....
Porsche is one of those marques about which I feel ambivalence. Unless the six numbers click into place on the...
When it comes to Porsche and racing, much has been written, both in print and online, about the Rennwagens from...
Its svelte silhouette has been a fixture of our sport for—take a breath—practically half a century. Incredibly, the lines and layout of the original Porsche 911s are recognizable in the most recent ones. And next year we’ll see yet another model iteration that will look fresh and new, but still...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Porsche by Mailander By Karl Ludvigsen Rodolfo Mailander was a German photographer whose work had already achieved a degree of...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail beast from 1978, the company’s first racecar with water-cooled cylinder heads. However, that particular machine was on tour in China and not due back at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart...