By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the disturbing news of Michael Schumacher’s December accident. While snow skiing, off piste, on...
Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham’s youngest son, David, having won back the rights to the Brabham name in 2012, has recently launched a new web site chronicling the exploits of three generations of family drivers, as well as 30 years as a car constructor and Formula One team. Become...
The family is an integral element of human life, and in many instances this is also true of racing. In...
In many ways the racing career of Dave MacDonald embodies the image of the light glowing twice as bright, lasting...
Photo: Dan R. Boyd Legendary car builder A.J. Watson, whose front-engined roadster designs helped define an era at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, passed away in mid-May, just four days after celebrating his 90th birthday. Watson’s very first roadster won the 1956 Indy 500 in the hands of Pat Flaherty (above),...
For the 22nd summer, petrol heads, automotive hoi polloi and motor racing royalty gathered at England’s West Sussex home of...
Mike Lawrence In a recent editorial, Casey Annis bemoaned wind tunnels and the negative effect they have had on racing...
Chris MacAllister in his 1964 FIA Cobra.Photo: Jim Hatfield Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Jr. and his amateur partner, Peter Klutt, were the winners of the Charity Indy Legends Pro-Am race held June 4–8, on the reconfigured 2.43-mile road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Sportscar Vintage Racing...
Canadian racer Al Pease passed away in early May at the age of 92. Pease, who was elected to the...
Mike Lawrence In 1957 Maserati was supreme. Fangio won the F1 Championship and the Maserati 450S came within an ace...
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...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally...
Photo: Mercedes-Benz USA The 20th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 13-15, 2015, will honor Sir Stirling Moss,...
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,...
Photo: Sean Smith Watkins Glen, New York, September 19, 1953. On lap 19, of a scheduled 22-lap race, Walter Hansgen...
Andrea de Cesaris’ career was characterized by an erratic and wild driving style that earned him the unfortunate nickname “de...
The man who called himself “Mister 500” in honor of the quest that dominated his life, has passed away at...
William F. Milliken Jackie StewartPhoto: Thierry Lesparre 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles...
Photo: Harold Pace Just in case anyone hadn’t heard the famous Sheb Wooley song, one car carried a license plate that spelled it out.Photo: Harold Pace The Minis raced in the SCCA’s Texas Region, which had its own popular Drivers Club for those competing in the 1960s.Photo: Harold Pace Everyone...
Richard Petty Emilio Villoresi 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talladega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 ...
Casey Annis / Editor I was very interested to read James Beckett’s profile last month on the Martini F3 car,...
The be-winged BMW 3.0 CSLs that American fans quickly dubbed “Batmobiles” and which took U.S. racing by storm in the mid-’70s, are to be featured at this year’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 7-9 on the golf course at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Donington Park will reverberate to the unmistakable sound of Bentley engines spanning nine decades on Saturday, June 7, 2014, as...
Bertil Sollenskog, a popular and successful engine builder who produced winning engines for Super Vee, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three and...
Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves once “The Wing” worked its way into F1’s consciousness.Photo: Chris Willows Red Bull gives you wings” says the advertising strap line for the energy drink that funds not only the...
Whether you are a lifelong fan or a recent convert, undoubtedly you have a racing touchstone, that is to say...
Jack Johnson behind the wheel. Black participation in American motorsports dates back to 1909, when then heavyweight champion Jack Johnson...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things get a little stale, or as a response when it is perceived that the public is losing interest. Other times it’s driven by sponsors...