Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
Donington Park, Castle Donington, UK Month 21-22, 2011 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our...
2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Photo: Brad Jansen Have you ever fantasized what it would be like to drive one of those tricked-out sedans you see charging around the Norisring in the German Touring Car Series? Well, you don’t need to fantasize any longer. The AMG performance arm of Mercedes-Benz has...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK May 14–15, 2011 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium...
In 1951 Froilan Gonzalez raced to victory at Silverstone to win the British Grand Prix. It was the first Grand Prix triumph for Scuderia Ferrari. Sixty years on and the anniversary was marked at Silverstone during this year’s British Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso climbed aboard a Ferrari 375—owned by Bernie...
Lyn St. James has been named Grand Marshal for the 8th Annual Charity Challenge of the Classic Sports Racing Group...
The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3)...
Showing more dedication than common sense, vintage racer and contributing writer John Nikas will try to avoid catastrophic fire while leaking oil and shedding parts as he drives a borrowed Austin-Healey 100 from Newport Beach, California, to Charleston, South Carolina, and then back to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in time...
I’m celebrating 25 years of motor racing, and I say this without counting the years I spent karting. It’s difficult...
One of the most versatile drivers motor sport has ever known is to be honored at next year’s Amelia Island...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the sport was run forever. Believe it or not, racing drivers of the 1920s used to thrash around circuits for hours on end without ever knowing their position or even whether...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I recently had the great honor of being invited to the Indianapolis...
The typically Teutonic efficiency of this site suits the image of Mercedes-Benz, and any apparent austerity quickly gives way to...
Contingency Plans Dear Editor, I would not dare to take my Avanti replica of the 1958 Lister-Chevy to the track, but if I owned an original, I certainly would agree with the opinions expressed in First Turn [VR, First Turn, July, 2011]. I do not believe that General Racing Ltd.,...
The headline story from this year’s Le Mans Legends race, prelude to the main 24-hour event, was the announcement of...
“Wow, I could have had an 8V!” Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to...
It’s 1911 and the first Indianapolis 500 is being won by a Marmon Wasp driven by Ray Harroun. It is the first car able to be raced without a riding mechanic because it was equipped with a rear-view mirror. Held on May 30, 1911, the first 500-Mile Race at the...
1909 Benz Type RE 200 PS “Blitzen Benz” It may seem somewhat incongruous that the story of one of Mercedes-Benz’s...
During the November 1952 running of Mexico’s fabled Carrera Pan-Americana, the Karl Kling/Hans Klenk Mercedes 300SL makes a pit stop...
Pete Lyons Do you remember the moment when enthusiasm for motorsports exploded inside you? Or at least started to smolder? Some of us may have been born burning, in terms of our passion for racing, but probably most needed the right mixture of circumstance and spark. No Subscription? You’re missing out...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
Roy Winkelmann, probably best known for running the team with which Jochen Rindt rose to prominence by recording nearly two dozen Formula Two victories in the mid- to late-’60s, has died in Florida. Although he was born in the UK, Winkelmann’s family moved to Utah during his childhood, and there...
Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, AL May 20–22, 2011 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our...
Roads and circuits of South Wales and the West Country, UK June 17–19, 2011 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get...
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale (1968). 3 Herb Thomas drives a Hudson Hornet to victory in the NASCAR Southern 500 at Darlington, South Carolina, beating 81 other starters (1951). No Subscription? You’re missing out Get...
In the days when racing’s regulations were somewhat less restrictive than perhaps they are now, designers occasionally looked beyond current...
The 3rd annual Motorsports and Memories event, set for September 17 at historic Meadowdale Raceways in Carpentersville, Illinois, will feature...
Well. Me sir? Gosh sir. Writing an obituary of Bill Boddy is rather like an everyday cinemagoer writing the obituary of Marilyn Monroe—I feel very humble. Like thousands of my contemporaries, reading Motor Sport magazine in the 1950s and onward, one felt as if one was actually part of the...
