Jim Rathmann, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500, passed away just before Thanksgiving in Palm Bay, Florida, a week after...
Former racing driver and race-school owner Jim Russell was reunited with his 1958 F2 Cooper at the Silverstone Classic weekend...
Jim Travers, who first rose to prominence along with his partner Frank Coon as the “Whiz Kids” behind Bill Vukovich’s success at Indianapolis, and later founded famed engine house Traco Engineering, has died at the age of 95. Collaborating with constructor Frank Kurtis, Travers (at right, above) and Coon built...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old....
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
Joe Huffaker, an icon of the sports car racing world since the 1960s, passed away peacefully in his Novato home, surrounded by family, on February 25, 2022. He was 95 years old. Born on Feb. 4, 1927 in Terre Haute, Indiana, at age 17 Joe built a roadster street car...
Upon his return from service with the Navy during WWII, Joe MacPherson took a job selling magazines door-to-door and, legend...
Joel E. Finn, author, racer and computer industry pioneer, died January 28 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 78. The...
I remember my first encounter with John Winter. I called him John, “My name’s Spike! Call me Spike,” he said. Spike was a no frills man, down to earth, and called things exactly as he saw them. He was a great character full of dry humor. His initial ambition was...
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
Eighty-six-year-old sports car racing legend John Fitch will attempt to enter the record books one more time when he takes to the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing. Fitch will attempt to break the World Land Speed Record in the F/GT production class on August 18, when...
Motor racing’s senior statesman, 92-year-old John Fitch, is being threatened with the loss of his home near Lime Rock where...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s...
Famed Corvette racer John Greenwood has died at the age of 71. The son of a General Motors executive, Greenwood grew up around cars and first rose to prominence in the early 1970 when he won consecutive SCCA A Production National Championships in a Corvette. For 1972 Greenwood secured backing...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that...
John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of...
Racing driver, engineer, journalist and lifelong lover of jazz, John Miles sadly passed away last weekend. John was a quiet, but determined individual whose driving talent, according to many commentators, was greatly underestimated. Timing is such a great aspect of deciding success or failure in a driver’s career and his...
John Sambrook began his Canadian racing career in 1959, racing at the Regional, National and FIA level. He was best...
Included on the Queen’s New Year Honors List this time around is the name of John Surtees, who has been...
Sad news emerged early today that motorcycle and Formula One World Champion, John Surtees has passed away at the age of 83. The Surtees family has released the following statement: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our husband and father, John Surtees CBE. John, 83,...
I remember talking to John Surtees a couple of years ago, and our conversation revolved around his many successes. With...
Forty Years ago this October, John Surtees added the Formula One Drivers Championship to his already impressive list of World...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the only person to have won World championships in both. Goodwood brought together a large selection of Surtees machinery in a very moving tribute to mark the occasion. The bikes ranged...
1964 Formula One World Champion John Surtees was honored at a charity dinner held near Northampton, England on June 29....
American road racing pioneer John von Neumann died on Christmas night, 2003. Born December 16, 1921, he had just turned...
Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the newly created position of Associate Editor. With over 30 years of motorsport journalism experience with titles such as AutoWeek, Road & Track, Formula, On Track, and most recently as Editor...
A rare piece of Champ car history is currently being offered for sale via private treaty, by Christie’s Motor Cars....
George-Francis “Johnny” Servoz-Gavin died recently, at the early age of 64, in his hometown of Grenoble. He was one of...
On April 27, Judy (Kondratieff) Ganley lost her valiant battle with cancer. Perhaps best known in recent years, as the wife of Kiwi Formula One driver Howden Ganley, Judy was an accomplished racer in her own right, with decades of team management experience to go with it. An excellent student...
