After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
The Crankhandle Club was founded in 1955, in Cape Town, South Africa. Today, it has its own clubhouse, in a southern suburb of Cape Town called Wynberg, within an area known as Chelsea. Looks like the real one in London. The club has over 500 members and is very active with...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin...
Sandown Raceway, Springdale, Victoria, Australia November 5-6, 2016 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our...
March 2017 The 12 Hours of Sebring; Sebring, April 1, 1967. The Chaparral 2D was entered by Jim Hall for himself, Bob Johnson and Bruce Jennings, but it was a mid-race retirement when the engine went sour. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate...
Don Garlits Ayrton Senna Photo: Bury Mason 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South...
Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe’s semi-auto-biographical film about a teenage journalist who lands a writing gig with Rolling Stone magazine...
Racing Honda cars in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) is pretty special to me. I’ve won three BTCC titles and countless races with them. Of course, I hold my first British Touring Car Championship win quite close to my heart. It was at the wheel of the 2005 Integra...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL December 1-4, 2016 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK November 5-6, 2016 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium...
Luigi Bazzi Biography He was called the soul of Ferrari. He had been there from the beginning and Enzo Ferrari recalled his...
Donald Campbell’s slippery Bluebird-Proteus CN7 speeds into the distance on its way to establishing a new world record speed of...
March 2017 • After a run of 19 years, the cost of operating the Coronado Speed Festival in San Diego has forced the cancellation of the event after its organizer, the nonprofit San Diego Fleet Week Foundation, was pushed to the brink of insolvency. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that...
Casey Annis (Editor) Photo: Dan R Boyd At the end of January, I was asked if I’d speak at the...
The 1970 World Cup Rally (WCR) has gone down in history as the longest and toughest rally ever. Criss-crossing Europe...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission age, and in my neighborhood I often see a Tesla with “Zero Emissions” as its license plate, which does give out the message to some of us fossil fuel engine...
Daytona Int’l Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL December 1-4, 2016 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all...
Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, Australia November 19-20, 2016 No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all...
Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati of the immediate post-war era and see only their curvaceous coachwork or their gorgeous engines; but there is much more to those and other well-known Italian sports and racing cars...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
