1902 Circuit des Ardennes – The Great Races By By Charles Jarrott Ten Years of Motors and Motoring It is...
History of Formula 1 – Motor Races 1931 Ogden’s Cigarettes Tobacco advertising and automobile racing goes back a lot further...
The 49th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona will be held January 29-30, 2011 on the 11-turn, 3.56 mile road course at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Current regulations for the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series are aimed at strict parity among the racing entrants. While seemingly...
1971 24 Hours of Daytona – The End of an Era Story and photos by Louis Galanos Few fans of...
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2011 was held January 29-30 at the 3.56-mile (5.73 km) Daytona International Speedway, a...
1957 Sebring 12-Hour Grand Prix Race Profile – “El Chueco” Rides A Hot Seat Story by Louis Galanos In 1957 Sebring was holding only its sixth installment of the 12-hour race. With the growing popularity of sports car racing in post World War II America, the event was finally coming...
The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring Grand Prix is legendary because it was won by American drivers driving an American...
The 12 Hours of Sebring 2011 was held Saturday, March 19th at Sebring International Raceway in Florida. The 59th annual...
By Martin Swig Jay Lamm is a long-time friend. Back in 2006, when he first thought of “LeMons,” I encouraged him. I told him he should simply go ahead and do it; the sooner he started, the quicker he’d discover exactly how it should be done. “Just make your mistakes...
Story by Leigh Dorrington The story of the Indianapolis 500 is the story of America in a pivotal century—the beginning...
In April 1931, Rudolf Caracciola became the first non-Italian to win the Mille Miglia road race. Alongside his co-driver Wilhelm...
History of the Indianapolis 500 – Part Two (See History of the Indianapolis 500 – Part One) By Leigh Dorrington The first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, won by Ray Harroun on the Indianapolis-built Marmon ‘Wasp’, began one of the longest sporting traditions in the world. And soon the whole world...
Story and photos by Art Evans Some 25 years ago, there was a vintage event like none other. It was...
By Art Evans When younger motor racing enthusiasts think of Daytona, images of stock cars on the International Speedway come...
1901 Paris to Berlin Race – Faster Than The Express Train By Walter Wellman Picturesque, indeed, was the scene at Fort de Champigny, on the outskirts of Paris, early in the morning of July 27th. As the first gray dawn-light crept down from the north. great crowds of men and...
By Art Evans As I described in my July column, the first motorized-vehicle race on land is acknowledged by historians...
By Art Evans The series we now know as Formula One traces its roots back to 1906. Before the term,...
The Vanderbilt Cup, America’s First International Series By Art Evans The first Vanderbilt Cup Race, held in 1904, amounted to pandemonium according to press reports. Newspaper and poster promotion drew a huge crowd. Estimated to be as numerous as 50,000 spectators were lined dangerously close to the entire course, some...
The Best Race Circuits In Grand Prix History Many of the greatest racing circuits exist only in dim memory brought...
By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited January 2012 marks the Golden Anniversary (50th) of sports car endurance racing at...
By Bob Harmeyer Daytona International Speedway in 2012 is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the track’s first road race, a three hour event won by Dan Gurney when he coasted across the finish line with a blown engine. The first two road races were three hour events, the third and...
1967 24 Hours of Daytona – The Revenge of “Il Commendatore” By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The year...
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 was held January 28-29 on the 12-turn, 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway, a combined...
By Bob Harmeyer Sebring International Raceway, located on a former Army Air Force base situated among the orange groves of south-central Florida, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the legendary 12 hour endurance classic in 2012. Sebring has always been one of my three favorite races to photograph, along with...
By Art Evans The Tourist Trophy is the oldest motor race in the world still being run. The first was...
1966 Sebring 12-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance – Ford Triumphs Amid Tragedy By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited During...
The 12 Hours of Sebring was held March 17, 2012 at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. The 60th anniversary Sebring endurance race, the opening round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, was an event full of tension all the way to the finish. After covering 325 laps at...
By Art Evans What do you think was the toughest and most difficult race ever? After reading my September 2011...
Sebring in 1973 was the beginning of a new era for the legendary track. The Alec Ulmann era had ended...
1903 Paris to Madrid – The Race to Death …We ask this question of car manufacturese in France and abroad: Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Paris to Peking by automobile? Whoever he is, this tough and daring man, whose gallant car will have a...
