1971 Alfa Romeo GTAm There is a slight inclination here to refer you to Tony Adriaensen’s remarkable tome Alleggerita and...
Round Sainte-Devote depicts the start of the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix with Jackie Stewart and Chris Amon leading the field...
1972 Surtees TS9B The relationship between money and success in an F1 team has always been a subject of interest and debate. There have been teams with very little money, in real and relative terms, that manage to do reasonably well—Minardi is perhaps a good example of that at present....
1970 Porsche 908/3 The author puts the 908/3 through its paces on Pierre Bardinon’s private Mas Du Clos circuit in...
1971 Trans-Am Javelin AMX When the typical automotive enthusiast thinks of American Motors, usually the images that are conjured are...
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...
1971 Tecno F2 The brothers Pederzani—Gianfranco and Luciano—ran a hydraulic pump company in Bologna. In 1962, they started up a...
The 12-Hours of Sebring remains the oldest established sports car endurance race to be held in the United States, although with a partly glorious, somewhat patchy history. Always a popular spring break destination, Sebring enjoyed an oftentimes “wild” party atmosphere in the ‘70s-sometimes on a par with Watkins Glen’s infamous...
1975 Eagle 755 F5000 Photo: Casey Annis In 1967, the SCCA began a fledgling “professional” category for open-wheel formula cars...
One sunny spring day in Spain, twenty-three Grand Prix drivers shut themselves into a van in a race paddock, refusing to come out and drive their F1 cars. The event promoters threatened to seize the cars and all other team assets. Feelings escalated almost to the point of guns. Tragically,...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...
1971 Ferrari 312P Photo: Peter Collins Sports car enthusiasts with an historical bent argue three great periods of sports car...
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