Looking back across the pantheon of Formula One greats one can find a rare subset of champions who not only...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 6–8, 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, Hurley Haywood and Jürgen Barth at Le Mans in 1977. Photo: Ed McDonough Jacky Ickx’s motor racing CV is enough to make your head spin. Believe it or not, it all...
This is the site of the Endurance Rally Association, organizers of the Peking to Paris Rally featured in this month’s...
Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves...
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...
The 2014 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris will honor passionate French enthusiast Jean Rédélé, whose Alpine cars are responsible...
Streets of Angoulême, France September 20–22, 2013 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...
Syd Fox recently lost his battle against cancer at the age of 83. Best known for his antics in Ford-powered...
Three-time Le Mans winner Hurley Haywood was honored with the sixth annual “Spirit of Competition” Award last November 20th, presented...
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...
1967: Chris Amon, Scuderia Ferrari and a year of living dangerously By John Julian This is an uncommon book about...
At a recent party celebrating the introduction of the new book, Racing Demons: Porsche and the Targa Florio, given at...
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...
• 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...
Phil Garratt and Kieron BrownPhoto: Mike Jiggle Phil Garratt and Kieron Brown recently won their category in the gruelling 7,610-mile, 2013 Peking to Paris Rally. VR’s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, wanted to know just how this was achieved, from the spark of the idea to participate, to the selection of...
Henry Taylor was a farmer, born in Shefford, Bedforshire, UK, and was initially smitten with Speedway (motorcycle racing) at West...
October’s Algarve Historic Festival featured a pair of 30-minute contests for the Historic Touring Car Challenge, with both being won...
Pete Lyons F1’s 3-liter formula that began in 1966 was hospitable to American constructors. All three U.S. domestic marques that achieved 1st place in a Grand Prix did so in that period. The winners were Dan Gurney’s Eagle at Spa in 1967, John Watson in a Penske in Austria, 1976,...
Coronado Island, San Diego, CA September 21–22, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Virginia International Raceway, Alton, VA September 26–29, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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....
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT August 30–September 2, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
A number of significant racing cars will be offered for sale at RM’s annual Arizona sale, January 16–17, at the...
Then. Southern California is home to a seemingly endless supply of astounding cars hiding in garages, warehouses and barns. For those of us residing in the other 49 States, I suppose it’s too bad for us. For the past 27 years, an early-postwar Italian-blooded racing machine has been resting quietly...
For the International Formula Libre Race at the British Grand Prix meeting at Silvertone, July 18, 1953, Juan Manuel Fangio...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Mike Lawrence By now, everyone who wants to see Rush has done so and formed their own opinion. There is no point in writing a critique, but the movie left some loose ends. Ron Howard was making a drama, not a documentary and all drama depends on conflict. The movie...
