June 2011 There was no place for frills at the Cooper Car Co. in Surbiton, Surrey, England, circa 1962. As...
The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
January 2009 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 10-11, 1961. Augie Pabst seems serene at the wheel of the battered and besmudged Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati Tipo 63 that he and Richard Thompson drove to 4th place overall at Le Mans in 1961. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION...
November 2017 The Targa Florio; Sicily, May 4, 1969. This is the Nomad Mk II with BRM power. It was driven by...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 22, 1966. Jackie Stewart at the Loews Hairpin on his way to a...
February 2018 The Crystal Palace Trophy, Crystal Palace, June 11, 1962. At the start, it’s Roy Salvadori on pole in the Reg Parnell Racing’s Lola 4, with Bruce McLaren’s Cooper 55 alongside and Trevor Taylor, in the works Lotus 24-BRM, on the inside. The eventual winner would be Innes Ireland,...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
April 2018 Jackie Oliver prepares to take the Gulf Mirage M2-Ford out for practice prior to the 1969 running of...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after Pole Day qualifying. In 1971 that group included Peter Revson on pole in the works McLaren-Offenhauser, Mark Donohue in the middle with Roger Penske’s Sunoco McLaren-Offenhauser, and Bobby Unser on the...
April 2011 During the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Tom Pryce rounds Rascasse in his Shadow DN5, not long after the...
July 2010 During the Spa-Francorchamps 750km Race on May 4, 1975, Henri Pescarolo extracts full speed from his Alfa Romeo...
October 2017 François Cévert guides his Tyrrell 002-Ford through Casino Square during wet practice for the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix. In the race, he went off and crashed on the fifth lap, while teammate Jackie Stewart won. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
For the Brands Hatch Six Hours on July 30, 1967, Mike Spence is at the wheel of the winning Chaparral...
At the rain-soaked Österreichring on August 13, 1978, Ronnie Peterson tops the rise after the pits trailing a sheet of...
At the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 25, 1961, John Fitch shared this Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati T61 “Birdcage” with Dick Thompson, but they retired in the early going, sidelined by a broken gearbox. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
The Anglo-European Trophy, Brands Hatch, September 14, 1963. Tim Mayer was a very talented young American driver and the brother...
From the 24 Hours of Le Mans, June 20-21, 1964, here’s Andy Hedges in the special works MGB that he...
During the Sebring 12 Hours on March 25, 1961, heavy traffic in the Webster Turns finds the factory-entered Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite of Ed Leavens and John Colgate leading, followed by the N.A.R.T. Ferrari 250GT California driven by Gus Audrey, Allen Newman and Bob Publicker. Behind them is the works Ferrari...
Young Brazilian Nelson Piquet drove his Gordon Murray-designed Brabham BT49-Cosworth to his first Formula One victory in Long Beach on...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
Le Mans, 1966. The lone Bizzarrini P538 entry (Chassis 003) driven by Swiss racers Edgar Berney (pictured) and Andre Wiky....
In the L&M F5000 Championship race at Michigan International Speedway on May 20, 1973, Peter Gethin raced for Marathon/Shierson Racing...
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...
Near the Lancia factory in Turin during March of 1954, Piero Taruffi seems pleased after a test of the Lancia...
Here is Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Gasometer turn, at the end of the main straight along the harbor,...
During the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch on October 6, 1985, Nigel Mansell leaves a shower of sparks from his Williams FW10-Honda as he passes the pits on his way to victory. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
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...
For the International Formula Libre Race at the British Grand Prix meeting at Silvertone, July 18, 1953, Juan Manuel Fangio...
Morgans were regularly used in England before World War II in Rallies, Trials and Speed Tests. This is a Morgan (a +4 perhaps) being driven by Mr. M.A.C. Simmonds at the Handling Test that was part of the Seventh Brooklands Rally on March 26, 1938. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION...
