At a recent party celebrating the introduction of the new book, Racing Demons: Porsche and the Targa Florio, given at...
Then. Southern California is home to a seemingly endless supply of astounding cars hiding in garages, warehouses and barns. For...
October’s Algarve Historic Festival featured a pair of 30-minute contests for the Historic Touring Car Challenge, with both being won by the pale blue and white Cologne Capri of Alex Buncombe and Andrew Smith. Their JD Classics-entered Ford was joined by a “team” car, an identical Capri piloted by Antonia...
Pete Lyons F1’s 3-liter formula that began in 1966 was hospitable to American constructors. All three U.S. domestic marques that...
Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves...
A number of significant racing cars will be offered for sale at RM’s annual Arizona sale, January 16–17, at the beautiful Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix. Included in the preliminary listings is a 1961 Chaparral 1, chassis 003, one of two team cars built by Troutman & Barnes...
Streets of Angoulême, France September 20–22, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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)...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Three-time Le Mans winner Hurley Haywood was honored with the sixth annual “Spirit of Competition” Award last November 20th, presented...
Henry Taylor was a farmer, born in Shefford, Bedforshire, UK, and was initially smitten with Speedway (motorcycle racing) at West Ham, London, before changing to four wheels and 500-cc racing cars, in 1954. The following year he won two races, the first at Silverstone, and in 1956 became very proficient,...
Coronado Island, San Diego, CA September 21–22, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Jacky Ickx and the smoky Martini Porsche 936 just made it to the end to claim the win for himself,...
Carroll Shelby Dick Rathmann 1 F1 racer and multiple Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx is born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop foreman), born in West Virginia (1901). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Looking back across the pantheon of Formula One greats one can find a rare subset of champions who not only...
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT August 30–September 2, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
A display of rare and significant McLaren racecars at the 19th annual Amelia Island Concours this March 7–9 will celebrate the marque’s 50th anniversary. McLaren remains the only marque to have won the Formula One World Championship, the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Can-Am championship....
• The 1977 McLaren M26-Ford that James Hunt drove to his final Grand Prix victory in that year’s Japanese Grand...
Photo: Mike Jiggle The legendary Argentine enjoyed a fantastic career in racing, and in Formula One he scored 24 Grand...
Photo: Roger Dixon I’ve always said that the greatest racecar I’ve ever driven was the Alan Mann Mustang, registration DPK 7B. Andrew Cowan and I won the Touring Car class in it in the 1964 Tour de France. We were 8th overall, the whole thing was won by Lucien Bianchi...
Phil Garratt and Kieron BrownPhoto: Mike Jiggle Phil Garratt and Kieron Brown recently won their category in the gruelling 7,610-mile,...
1967: Chris Amon, Scuderia Ferrari and a year of living dangerously By John Julian This is an uncommon book about...
The 2014 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris will honor passionate French enthusiast Jean Rédélé, whose Alpine cars are responsible for much racing history, with a showing of 15 cars from his collection. Among the Alpines on display will be: M63 from 1963 when it contested the Charade 1,000 Kilometers...
This is the site of the Endurance Rally Association, organizers of the Peking to Paris Rally featured in this month’s...
Virginia International Raceway, Alton, VA September 26–29, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Syd Fox recently lost his battle against cancer at the age of 83. Best known for his antics in Ford-powered machinery during the 1970s, Fox may have never reached his goal of Formula One, but he was one of Britain’s most respected racers in national ranking championships such as Formula...
Mike Lawrence By now, everyone who wants to see Rush has done so and formed their own opinion. There is...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 6–8, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Rob DysonPhoto: Regis Lefebure Going into the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside in April of 1986, one of our Porsche 962s had been wrecked, so we got a new tub from the factory but it needed all the other parts from our wrecked car. In essence we were...