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Jim Clark Robert Benoist 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer and Shadow. Follmer brought his Shadow in sixth...
We’re all aware of a history of heart failures in vintage racing, some of them unfortunately fatal. Recently there have been a number of Olympic-caliber athletes who have experimented with an easy, basic fitness program based on heart performance. Their dramatic results can apply as much to the prevention of...
It’s probably to the good that Innes Ireland, Duncan Hamilton and Augie Pabst were never at a party together –...
I am not politically correct. I have never met anyone in motor racing who is. Motor racing and political correctness...
I am often asked what was my “greatest race,” and that is not an easy question. The Mille Miglia in 1955 was a great one because of the endurance it required, and there have been some races that I didn’t finish which had some of the qualities that make an...
Think for a moment what makes a driver great – a true champion. Go ahead, I’ll wait…hmmmh, hmmh, hmmmh. Done?...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Southern California is arguably one of the finest museums of its type anywhere in the...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long brainstorming session to come up with the title of Atlantic for 1971’s newest UK single-seater formula. After all – after nurturing in the UK – it was then exported back...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the...
Friends and owners of the Allard are being invited to take part in a special weekend of activities to be...
The first decade of the 24-Hours of Le Mans was virtually dominated by Bentley. The famed cars from Crewe won the French classic in 1924 and 1927-1930 before retiring from motorsport. Now after a 70-year hiatus, Bentley has announced that it will return with a radical, all carbon-fiber prototype known...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest and Motoring Cavalcades have announced that they will be hosting a special historic race in...
Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing, Ltd., the Pikes Peak International Raceway and the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Association have joined forces to...
Recently, the Motorsports Hall of Fame located in Novi, Michigan, announced its 2001 inductees. This year’s list included noted road racers Ken Miles and Emerson Fittipaldi, as well as NASCAR star Fred Lorenzen and Indianapolis legend Andy Granatelli. Road racing legend Ken Miles came to prominence in the postwar Southern...
A couple of years ago, we brought your attention to a Web site devoted to the Frazer Nash. In light...
June 2001 Prototypes—The History of the IMSA GTP Series By J.A Martin & Ken Wells From 1981 to 1993, American...
Daytona Beach, FL Feb. 1-4 The 1977 Porsche 935 of Hugh Fuller. Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all...
West Palm Beach, FL Feb. 8-11 The Lotus Super Seven of Ken Walker. Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member &...
West Palm Beach, FL Feb. 26 Joe Mundy’s Porsche 908. Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Sometime in the rainy wee hours of the recent Rolex 24 at Daytona, a race I find myself covering again after a lapse of, gosh, decades, one of my younger colleagues turned and asked, “So what do you think?” My response wasn’t prepared, but it was instant. “Well, it’s not...
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Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo to victory in the Grand Prix of Monaco (1934). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Like many of his compatriots of the pre-corporate days of racing, Ireland lived and raced for the same reason –...
Motorsport magazine, which I had the privilege to edit in the mid-1980s, recently ran a piece which claimed that 1976...
Like any racing driver who has competed seriously, I am often asked what were my favorite cars, or the quickest, or the easiest to drive. That’s always a difficult question to answer because cars are so different from each other. Certain cars suit certain circuits, the others don’t, and some...
If you raced small displacement production cars or modifieds in the US during the ’60s and early ’70s, then you’ve...
Dan Gurney has a serious conversation with Cosworth founder Keith Duckworth. Photo: Ed McDonough Collection The 1968 season was a...
Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Sebring is a favorite race for underdogs. Who can forget Jim Hall’s Chaparral swimming down the pit straight on its way to vanquishing the Ford onslaught in 1965? Or the tiny Crosley winning the first Sebring race ever in 1951 (OK, it was on handicap)....
