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From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the winning Dyson Racing R&S MkIII-Ford in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1997). Become a...
How many vintage racing machines can you name that were originally powered by an ear-piercing DKW power plant? Not such...
February 2017 This is Rolf Stommelen at the Loew’s Hairpin during the Monaco Grand Prix on May 14,1972. He’s driving the Eifelland, which was in reality a somewhat modified March 721. Stommelen qualified last of the allowed 25 starters, and was even then fortunate to make the field because the...
This painting had been festering in Ian Guy’s mind for some time before he was finally able to capture it on...
In this age of hi-tech carbon fiber car and aircraft construction, wood may now seem an odd material to use,...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the grand unveiling of two high-end yachts from two well-known racing nameplates. In late September, Aston Martin debuted its 37-foot AM37 powerboat at the Monaco Yacht Show, while Mercedes-Benz made a...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and a German driver, Nico Rosberg. Germany has had many successes and failures during the history of motor racing and the life of the modern Formula One World Championship. While pre-war...
The Crankhandle Club was founded in 1955, in Cape Town, South Africa. Today, it has its own clubhouse, in a...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin Crabbe, it will be in this book, a most personal account of apparently everything that ever happened to him. And, of course, he led a full life, the arc of...
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After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Championship for Drivers, in the world’s most technically...
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 and tours with an up-and-coming rock band and their fetching groupies. The boyish Crowe character travels alongside his musical heroes, falls in love with Penny Lane (played by Kate Hudson),...
March 2017 The 12 Hours of Sebring; Sebring, April 1, 1967. The Chaparral 2D was entered by Jim Hall for...
Donald Campbell’s slippery Bluebird-Proteus CN7 speeds into the distance on its way to establishing a new world record speed of...
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...