Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA June 5–6, 2004 The 1958 Lister-Jaguar of Mark Colonna. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member &...
Watkins Glen, NY June 3–6, 2004 The Morgan trike of Jeff Jacobsen. Photo: Jim Hatfield Become a Member & Get...
The happy driver you see here is not Henry Gritzback, aka “Grampa.” How I came to know that is a minor detective story I hope you’ll enjoy. My dad’s photo archive includes several thousand 4×5-inch negatives, many of which depict his lifelong enthusiasm for racing. According to Ozzie’s notes on...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a...
I first became interested in Formula One when my husband took me to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1982—the race in which there were several lead changes in the last laps and Ricardo Patrese was surprised to learn he had won when he crossed the finish line! We have since...
I guess I have done most types of motorsport at one time or another…trials, sprints, rallies, hill-climbs and races. I...
Can you hear that creaking sound? That’s the sound of me opening Pandora’s Box once again. At the risk of alienating oh, maybe 95% of our readership—I’m going to go out on a limb here and state that, in my opinion, Formula Ford drivers are among the best drivers in...
Bob Bondurant’s racing career has had many diverse facets including stints in small-bore production cars, big bangers such as the...
Tears streamed down a thousand faces in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris on September 9, 1945. Tears for the...
1971 Tecno F2 The brothers Pederzani—Gianfranco and Luciano—ran a hydraulic pump company in Bologna. In 1962, they started up a second company to manufacture racing karts, known as Tecnokarts. Amazingly, within ten years they constructed and ran an F1 car—some people would later say that they should have stuck to...
Legendary racecar driver Mario Andretti has accepted the invitation to be the Grand Marshal of New York City’s 60th Columbus...
A great deal of work by Jim Graham and the Group C/GTP Racing Group resulted in an entry of 37...
Racing his green MGA Coupe, Bill Bartlett won this year’s prestigious “Simms Cup” for MG racers, at Mosport, Ontario, in June. It’s awarded annually by the “Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada” at their Vintage Festival race. Bartlett is from Atlanta, Georgia, but his roots go back to Toronto where he grew up, not far from the Mosport track....
The 5,000 enthusiasts who attended this year’s 17th annual ‘Eyes on Design’ car show, in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, were...
The main drive through the park of Lord March’s Goodwood House once again echoed to the sound of a wide...
The 9th edition of the Silver Flag Hillclimb in early July was the largest and best yet of the historic event revived by Club Piacentino in Piacenza, Italy, organized by the enthusiastic Claudio Casale and his committee which spends an entire year getting many of the best historic cars in...
On June 30th, the truck, trailer and racecar of historic racer Louie Shefchik, were brazenly stolen from the parking lot...
1964 Formula One World Champion John Surtees was honored at a charity dinner held near Northampton, England on June 29....
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by the tidy and powerful Coventry Climax 1100 cc engine. This new car, dubbed the “Eleven”, featured a 70 lb tubular spaceframe reinforced with stressed aluminum panels and slippery Costin-designed aluminum...
October 2004 The Art of the National Automobile—The Thomas Mittler Collection By Art Eastman Throughout the summer of 2004, five...
Danbury, West Virginia June 11–16, 2004 1959 Tornado Thunderbolt/Bob Wismer.Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Australia June 19–20, 2004 As usual the 1967 Matich SR3 of Keith Berryman looked immaculate.Photo: Steve Oom 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...
Monte Carlo, Monaco May 15–16, 2004 Caption.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI July 17–18, 2004 Baker.Photo: Jim Hatfield Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Summit Point Raceway, W.VA. May 16–19, 2004 Caption.Photo: Hal Crocker 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 our premium content, and offers you awesome...
Brands Hatch, England July 17–18, 2004 David Stevenson’s 1962 Lotus 22 heads Barry Westmoreland’s similar car at Stirlings.Photo: Peter Collins Become...
Goodwood, UK June 5–6, 2004 Jean-Pierre Jassaud returned to Goodwood to drive the wors LeMans Alpine Renault A442.Photo: Peter Collins...
The last car ends its cool-off lap, sending one last snap of delicious sound echoing away across the raceway. This is when another kind of fun begins. Pete Lyons In the quiet aftermath of a sports car race the other day, I was asking one of the younger pro drivers...
