Casey Annis Editor/Publisher As historic racers, to some extent our “Holy Grail” is to find a racecar with real, documented...
Stirling Moss accepts congratulations upon winning the 1956 Grand Prix of Bari in his works Maserati 300S.Photo: Maserati Archive Maserati...
Karl Kling, Mercedes W196.Photo: courtesy of Chris Bayley Automobilia (www.chrisbayleyautomobilia.co.uk) Lost in the sands of time for nearly 60 years...
Photo: Pete Austin Lawrence Bond was a stubborn man who often as not was unwilling to compromise on his ideas. He was an eccentric British designer who came up with idea after idea for the construction of low-volume vehicles consisting of two, three or four wheels. Although many of his designs...
Bertil Sollenskog, a popular and successful engine builder who produced winning engines for Super Vee, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three and...
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA June 21–22, 2014 1978 Lola T333 1974 Zink Z10; 1971 Titan MK6 1955 Kurtis KL500...
Mike Lawrence In a recent editorial, Casey Annis bemoaned wind tunnels and the negative effect they have had on racing...
Mike Lawrence The size and shape of drivers is becoming an issue under the new regulations for Formula One. In...
Virginia International Raceway, Alton, VA September 27–29, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the theory that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables, based at the Brands...
Photo: BRDC My dream, like many racing drivers, was to get to the top of the sport Formula One. Some...
Racing car designer and manufacturer John Crosslé has died at the age of 83 following a brief illness. Crosslé was...
For the International Formula Libre Race at the British Grand Prix meeting at Silvertone, July 18, 1953, Juan Manuel Fangio drove the V16 BRM, finishing 2nd to “Nino” Farina in Tony Vandervell’s Thinwall Special 4.5-liter Ferrari. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Then After back-to-back wins at the Indianapolis 500 in 1953 and 1954, Bill Vukovich returned for the ’55 race with...
Eddie Rickenbacker Soichiro Honda 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 F1 World Champion Alan Jones born (1946). 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...
The Louwman Museum in Den Haag, Netherlands, is presenting a major exhibition of cars from the legendary Martini Racing team....
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are...
Jack Johnson behind the wheel. Black participation in American motorsports dates back to 1909, when then heavyweight champion Jack Johnson won several races in a Southern California race carnival. In 1910, at a time when the American Automobile Association (AAA) approved racecar driver licenses, Johnson submitted an application. It was...
Photo: Hal Crocker Motorsport enthusiasts in Australia and throughout the world were saddened to hear the news of the passing...
Art of the Le Mans Racecar By Stuart Codling This is a book of history about the 24 Hours of...
Photo: Sean Smith Watkins Glen, New York, September 19, 1953. On lap 19, of a scheduled 22-lap race, Walter Hansgen lost the lead of the Watkins Glen Grand Prix. Walt’s car began to run out of fuel—a momentary stumble—forcing him to switch to his reserve tank and allowing the more...
Rick Hall Photo: Kary Jiggle If you look around many of the historic racing paddocks today, especially those series that...
The be-winged BMW 3.0 CSLs that American fans quickly dubbed “Batmobiles” and which took U.S. racing by storm in the...
Photo: BRDC Archive Engine builder and designer Brian Hart, aged 77, passed away in the first few days of the New Year. Like many of his era, Hart started his career in the aviation business before moving to engine building in the motorsport industry. His passion for motor racing began following...