Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance endurance racing and ask them what one of the most exciting, epic seasons of all time was, nine times out of ten the response will be 1970. The 1970 endurance...
Lotus—The Early Years An in-depth look at the formative years of Lotus from 1951-1954. Peter Ross examines the men and...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Shanghai’s gaudy new, $300-million supercircuit, home of the first-ever Grand Prix in China, has a truly distinctive first turn complex....
December 2004 Speed in Sweden—A Century of Swedish Motorsport By Björn Tiedemann, et al. While it is easy to overlook...
With more than 60 chapters across the U.S. and Canada, Jaguar Clubs of North America is undoubtedly one of the largest Jaguar enthusiast organizations anywhere in the world. As such, this month’s featured Web site is a vast, well-organized site devoted both to the club’s numerous activities and the history,...
Tazio Nuvolari Whitney Straight 5 Roy Thomas, designer of Titan formula racers, dies of complications from lung cancer (2001). 6...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
November 2004 Indy Cars of the 1940s Introduction by Karl Ludvigsen The 1940s are the under-reported years of motor racing, and additions to the existing dearth of material is always welcome. This 128-page soft-cover from the Iconografix series is no exception. It is, as the title suggests, a photographic record...
Though often overlooked by many historians, the history of Australian road racing is rich with a long and varied selection...
Barney Oldfield Nanni Galli Clay Regazzoni Gunar Nilsson 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...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
October 2004 The Art of the National Automobile—The Thomas Mittler Collection By Art Eastman Throughout the summer of 2004, five...
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by the tidy and powerful Coventry Climax 1100 cc engine. This new car, dubbed the “Eleven”, featured a 70 lb tubular spaceframe reinforced with stressed aluminum panels and slippery Costin-designed aluminum...
Can you hear that creaking sound? That’s the sound of me opening Pandora’s Box once again. At the risk of...
I first became interested in Formula One when my husband took me to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1982—the race...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a Voiturette Grand Prix won by Pietro Bordino in a Fiat 804-403 (1922). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
September 2004 Lotus Seven & The Independents By Dennis Ortenburger In 1957, Colin Chapman introduced the Lotus Seven and, in...
Jackie Oliver Nigel Mansell 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a crash during practice for...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
August 2004 Champions Forever—The Formula One Drivers This 2002 DVD was originally titled the more lurid “Quick and the Dead” when it was first released in the 1970s, and it is truly a ’70s piece of motor racing nostalgia, with a considerable helping of bad taste. Stacy Keach, in typically...
As one of the most recognized names in motorsport, the blood red cars of Ferrari are perhaps one of the...
This large painting study was inspired by my first visit to Lime Rock Park 17 years ago. I couldn’t believe...
Richard Petty Antonio Ascari 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for Team Penske’s first Champ Car victory (1971). 4 Frank Verbeck wins $50,000 when he drives a Fiat to victory in the 444-mile Pan-Pacific Road Race from Los Angeles to Sacramento. Longest race on...
