September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
On May 9th, 1992, Roberto Guerrero earned the pole position for the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Piloting...
Wakefield Park, Australia November 7, 2007 It’s lonely out front! Chris Farrell in his 1982 Spirit Honda/BMW.Photo: Jeremy Dale 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...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
February 2003 Formula A and Formula 5000 in America By Wolfgang Klopfer From 1968 to 1976, open-wheeled road racing was...
November 2009 Quixx Plexiglas & Acrylic Scratch Remover As any racer knows, scratches are an inevitable part of racing. In particular, Plexiglas windscreens, windows, and headlight covers take a real beating, and unlike glass, they can’t be cleaned with chemicals like Windex. Likewise, gel-coated fiberglass surfaces take an equal beating,...
February 2002 Mintex Man By Guy Loveridge with Bob Richardson Affectionately known as the “Mintex Man,” Lionel Clegg was one...
Hagerty has announced its acquisition of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The move follows Hagerty’s recent acquisitions of other premiere...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the non-championship F2 race at Falkenberg in Halland, Sweden (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport and British Racing Drivers Club member, Sam Tingle, who died just before Christmas last year. Although synonymous with South Africa, Tingle was, in fact, born in Manchester, England. His racing...
July 2003 Toyota 2000 GT—The Complete Story of Japan’s First Supercar By Shin Yoshikawa While Japanese cars are often overlooked...
Foretelling the future is impossible, yet that is what executives in car companies have to do. When I was a...
China’s third YanQi Island Concours d’Elegance, held in the Huairou District near Beijing, presented 38 top-level historic vehicles and 14 modern automobiles in one the top exhibitions of its kind in China. This year’s classic historic automobiles included: a 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS Prototipo (above, photo courtesy of YanQi...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect...
• HANS® Performance Products, the inventors of the head and neck restraint, has announced its next-generation product, the HANS Adjustable....
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world filled with maps, turn-by-turn guides and explanatory videos to provide an idea of what to expect should you go there to race. For each track there is also information about...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Howden Ganley There is an old maxim which says America and Britain are two countries divided by a common language...
My forty-third stained-glass window turned out to be a very special piece of art. It was commissioned by Jan and...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
I first became interested in Formula One when my husband took me to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1982—the race in which there were several lead changes in the last laps and Ricardo Patrese was surprised to learn he had won when he crossed the finish line! We have since...
Eastern Creek International Raceway, Sydney, Australia November 28–29, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Given this issue’s focus on safety equipment, and knowing that most of our readers possess at least an appreciation for...
December 2009 Italian Monster Dear Editor, Beautiful job with the Cad-Alfa (also loved the Watkins Glen story and Kessler interview). The three Torrey Pines photos were all taken at the July meet, not the December ’52 one, which I know not only because I took one of them, but because...
As touched upon in this month’s interview with one-time BRM (British Racing Motors) team manager Tim Parnell, the Bourne-based Grand...
Eight cylinders, a displacement of two liters, 100 PS and speeds up to 145 km/h – the figures of a...
Bob Tullius Aldo Andretti Romolo Tavoni Oscar Koveleski 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 British sports car racer and entrant David Piper is born (1930). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers...
