1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo:...
My greatest racecar would have to be a choice between my first F5000 car, the 1969 McLaren, or, the 1970...
July 2010 During the Spa-Francorchamps 750km Race on May 4, 1975, Henri Pescarolo extracts full speed from his Alfa Romeo 33TT12 up the Radillon hill. Pescarolo teamed with Derek Bell to win the Belgian race. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
The 1970 Le Mans 24 hours is immortalized in the the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, with much of the...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
What a question! It’s all so difficult because I’ve driven many varied cars across several eras of racing. Technology and development have played a part during my years of racing too; racecars have become better as time goes on. I started racing with a Lotus Seven at Goodwood, which was...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible log of race winners from 1895–2009. www.racemaker.com • (617) 723-6533 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical...
Leading historic race organizer, Motor Racing Legends, has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group A Touring Cars, such as raced in the British and European Touring Car Championships between 1977 and 1985. The new series will be called the JD Classics Challenge, thanks to...
Myron Vernis has a problem. Oh, he seems normal enough at first blush…terrific career, amazing wife, two wonderful loving daughters....
April 2011 During the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Tom Pryce rounds Rascasse in his Shadow DN5, not long after the “wet race” start. Having started on the outside of the front row, he ran in 3rd place during the opening laps of the race, but stopped too early to change...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after...
Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail beast from 1978, the company’s first racecar with water-cooled cylinder heads. However, that particular machine was on tour in China and not due back at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive...
The author found the Amon AF101 quite enjoyable to drive at Donington, now that it has been extensively developed—note particularly the twin canard fin nose treatment.Photo: Pete Austin One of the problems in writing this profile is the temptation to indulge in a long list of Chris Amon misfortunes—and there...
The Watkins Glen 6 Hours, on July 21, 1973, served as the final round of that year’s World Sportscar Championship...
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the Volvo P1800, Sunbeam Tiger and Austin-Healey in addition to the first Interceptor built from 1950 to 1957 with various engines under an attractive glass fiber body. The second iteration of...
Nearly a decade after it had stunned the world with the original 300 SL, Mercedes-Benz faced the daunting task of...
Starting in 1954, Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo launched a series of small, affordable sports cars based around its all-alloy, 1300-cc,...
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers of the HANS Device Head And Neck Restraint System. HANS Performance Products, formed in 1991 by five-time IMSA driving champion Jim Downing and HANS inventor Dr. Robert Hubbard, will be operated...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
At the rain-soaked Österreichring on August 13, 1978, Ronnie Peterson tops the rise after the pits trailing a sheet of spray from his Lotus 79 on his way to an excellent wet weather win. Sadly it would be his last. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member &...
