January 2004 Race Legends of the Fabulous Fifties By Art Evans For many racers and fans the 1950s harbor a...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with...
December 2003 Lotus 72—Formula One Icon By Michael Oliver In the current era of Formula One, today’s frontrunners will be...
From 1954–1967, Wilmot Hills Raceway, in Wilmot, Wisconsin, played host to a wide variety of road races. Built by the Chicago region of the SCCA just north of the IllinoisWisconsin border, the 1-mile circuit at Wilmot Hills was one of the first purpose-built race circuits in the Mid-west. The circuit...
In the world of racing, automotive brands, more often than not, become flag bearers of national pride and heritage. In...
The Jaguar XKD-Type is perhaps one of my favorite auto designs ever. Introduced in 1954 as a replacement to the C-Type, it had many new innovations, such as disc brakes. Everything about the D-Type, from its riveted aluminum body panels, leather-lined cockpit and thin wood-rimmed steering wheel, to its 6-cylinder...
Derek Bell Gaston Chevrolet 2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
November 2003 Alfa Romeo TZ—The Cars, the Race Results By Philippe Olczyk It came as something of a surprise to find myself pictured behind the wheel, on page four of Olczyk’s TZ book, in a picture that has never been released of a totally nonexistent car! Become a Member & Get...
Like so many great racing drivers over the ages, Swede Savage was a talented, up-and-coming racing driver who was snatched...
Mario Andretti started the 1978 Formula One season in the Colin Chapman–designed Lotus 78. After winning the season opener in...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road...
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 2003 Daytona 24 Hours By J.J. O’Malley In the world of professional sports car racing, only two events have...
Recently FIA president Max Mosley suggested that the FIA might revive the F2 category as a way of stimulating competition...
The 18th annual OLD/NOW Car Festival was held on the Childrens Day public holiday at Tsukuba circuit, an hour and a half northwest of Tokyo. The meeting was heavily promoted and a big crowd turned out on a warm spring day. There was a mixture of races and “circuit runs.”...
The world of motorsport lost one of its most charming and colorful characters on July 16, when team owner Theodore...
Al Holbert Clay Regazzoni 3 Brian Redman wins the F5000 race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, in a Lola T330. Jody Scheckter...
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 2003 Jean-Pierre Wimille by Jean-Michel Paris & William D. Mearns This has been one of those long, awaited books...
Few would argue with the fact that Scottish racing great Jim Clark ranks as one of the greatest Formula One...
Luigi Villoresi John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra RS500 is homologated for Group A touring car racing (1987). 1 F1 racer Patrick Depailler is killed in a crash during testing (1980). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
August 2003 Ferrari – The Factory By Karl Ludvigsen So much has been written about the pride of Maranello that...
