Pete Lyons Come with me to Italy, if you’ve got a minute, I want to show you something neat. We’re...
Two Italian gentlemen wedged into a tiny race car, flying atop open roads across glorious countryside, through blistering sun and...
In Monte Carlo on May 10, 1964, Jackie Stewart made one of his early international drives in this Cooper Formula Junior support race for the Monaco Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such...
How many more trees do these Brits plan on killing? Since its beginnings in the early part of the 20th...
Formula 3 was a superb training ground for many British drivers in the early 1950s. For this sunny International Daily Express Trophy Race Meeting at Silverstone on May 9, 1953, the front row was also the finishing order! Don Parker (#23) started from pole in his Kieft and went on...
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...
Cliff Reuter and I suffer from codependency. The phone calling and emailing is incessant. I regularly disturb him while he’s giving tennis lessons and he has a particular talent for ringing my cell phone just when I’m beginning to do surgery on the bones. But we share a passion for...
The Daytona Continental (3 Hours) Race; Daytona, February 17, 1963. Pedro Rodriguez in the N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 250 GTO leads Skip Hudson’s...
The 1955 24-hour race at Le Mans was set to be an epic contest. Mercedes-Benz had entered the brilliant new...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into today’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, but not all of those races were run for a full 24 hours. The first two runnings had a three-hour duration, while the next two...
Jim Rathmann, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500, passed away just before Thanksgiving in Palm Bay, Florida, a week after...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari...
If you were going to build an 850-cc sports racer in the 1960s, which engine would you choose? Larry Kropp answered that question with a Deutsch Bonnet air-cooled two-cylinder, and to this day he remains steadfast that his decision was spot on. In the ’60s Kropp was a toolmaker living...
London to Brighton, UK November 6, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Deep inside Hunter Valley Wine Country of New South Wales (NSW) lives a very interesting automotive treasure-seeker. By day Aaron...
The 12 Hours of Sebring, March 25, 1961, featured heavy traffic in the Webster Turns. Shown leading this group is the factory-entered Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite of Ed Leavens and John Colgate, followed by the N.A.R.T. Ferrari 250GT California driven by Gus Andrey, Allen Newman and Bob Publicker. Behind them are...
I’ve been associated with many great racecars over the years, and for the most part Indycars. I’m particularly proud of...
This month we offer you, courtesy of YouTube, a two-part review of the 1963 running of the 12 Hours of...
Austrian born Karl Alberto Abarth did so many things so very well. He was a motorcycle racing champion, multiple land speed record holder, competitive auto racer and one of the most prolific automotive designers of the 20th Century. When he moved to Italy in the 1930s to become a naturalized...
Scottsdale, Arizona January 18-22, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
The finned Cunningham D-Types of Walt Hansgen and Sherwood Johnston, wait with Duncan Forlong’s AC/Bristol and Curtis Attaway’s XK-120.Photo: Bob Schroeder Over the years Texas has seen its share of oilmen who were actively involved in sports car racing. One of them was Dallas resident Samuel Allen Guiberson, who was...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin...
In order to understand the Pegaso story, it’s first necessary to understand the man behind the car and the tumultuous times that he lived in. Wifredo Pelayo Ricart y Medina was born in Barcelona on May 15, 1897. By 1918, he graduated from the Barcelona School of Engineering as an...
A joint venture between enthusiast Martyn Corfield and restorer Trevor Farrington has turned back the clock 75 years with the...
“For nearly a half-century, wherever Americans powered their way to automobile glory, whether on the two-and-a-half-mile Speedway at Indianapolis, the...
During the Brands Hatch Six Hours on April 13, 1969, Chris Amon comes up to Druids, his lone Ferrari 312P complete with all sorts of aero devices to help keep the nose down. Amon had Pedro Rodriquez as his co-driver, but they were no match for a gaggle of Porsche...
