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...
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...
Shanghai’s gaudy new, $300-million supercircuit, home of the first-ever Grand Prix in China, has a truly distinctive first turn complex. It coils up tightly one way like a watch spring, then unwinds. It seems obvious to me it’s meant to look like the oriental yin and yang symbol. SpeedTV commentators...
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...
Tazio Nuvolari Whitney Straight 5 Roy Thomas, designer of Titan formula racers, dies of complications from lung cancer (2001). 6 Joe Nikrent drives a Buick to victory in the Los Angeles-to-Phoenix race. Nikrent covers the 480 miles in 19 hours and 13 minutes for an average speed of 24.98 mph...
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,...
Though often overlooked by many historians, the history of Australian road racing is rich with a long and varied selection of series, drivers and interesting cars. This month’s featured Web site is the project of an Australian race mechanic from the ’50s and ’60s and is in the form of...
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From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
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...
Can you hear that creaking sound? That’s the sound of me opening Pandora’s Box once again. At the risk of alienating oh, maybe 95% of our readership—I’m going to go out on a limb here and state that, in my opinion, Formula Ford drivers are among the best drivers in...
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...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body,...
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 German Grand Prix (1964). 1 Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap of the German Grand Prix and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks...
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”...
As one of the most recognized names in motorsport, the blood red cars of Ferrari are perhaps one of the few automotive icons that are universally known by enthusiasts and nonenthusiasts all across the world. With over 50 years of road and racing heritage, one would expect that the official...
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...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the...
