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Pete Lyons I edged my toes to the brink of an abyss a thousand feet deep, issuing my own small...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the Eifel Race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1934). 4 The first organized midget race, sanctioned by the newly formed Midget Racing Association, is held in Sacramento, California (1933). Become a...
“Their hopes, their dreams, their love; tied to a ribbon of road…and a boy’s unflinching faith…in a girl!” “A story...
June 2011 There was no place for frills at the Cooper Car Co. in Surbiton, Surrey, England, circa 1962. As this photo shows, the interior of the “works” was cramped and informal in a typically 1960s British fashion. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was organized by the Sports Car Club of America on October 2, 1948 at Watkins Glen, NY. Even though Southern California was a hotbed of the car-crazy culture, road racing took...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver,...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born to a country postman and his wife on December 15, 1900 in Aunay-sous-Auneau, about 50 miles southwest of Paris. At 16, she broke loose from her provincial shackles and invaded...
Formula One crossed an historic turning point on March 2, but I think it is safe to say that almost...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California...
All six events at Pebble Beach’s fourth renewal were memorable for those lucky enough to be there, but ’53 was really special for two important reasons. That year began the new MG era of domination, the Ken Miles era, and for those present at the start of West Coast road...
Which sub-one-liter competition engine has the most international road racing victories of all time? OSCA? Bandini? Crosley? Abarth? Nardi? Moretti?...
1985 Audi Quattro E2 Simply put, when the Audi Quattro appeared, it immediately had its detractors. The immense power output...
The one and only factory-built low-drag E-Type Jaguar, chassis no: S850662, known as the “Lindner Nocker,” which crashed at the Montlhéy circuit in 1964 claiming the lives of its driver Peter Lindner, another driver Franco Patria and three race officials, has been restored to near original condition by world respected...
Jackie Cooper, who was the first child actor, to be nominated for a major Academy Award, and who enjoyed a...
For Western Australians, the home of postwar motor racing was Caversham in the Swan Valley on the outskirts of Perth....
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career in racing as a driver and entrant covered more than 50 years, including a dozen Formula One starts, victory in the very first race ever held at Laguna Seca, and...
The Silverstone Classic, firmly established as “the world’s biggest classic racing festival,” celebrates 21 years since its inception this July...
At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series for historic single-seat racing cars. Murray Smith, chairman of the Lime Rock Historic Festival, and Peter McLaughlin, manager of SVRA, have announced a new category called Formula Historic for owners...
In celebration of its 50th birthday, more than 20 examples of the Ferrari 250 GTO, considered by many to be...
In 2003 our own Mark Brinker acquired Bob Sorrell’s 1954 SR-100-bodied Sorrell-Manning Special. This was Mr. Sorrell’s personal car, built...
To supplement this month’s feature story on the 1961 French Grand Prix we offer this nearly 20-minute clip in summary of the event, with excellent explanatory commentary to guide viewers through the entire race weekend. It provides a good perspective on not only the race at hand, but also the...