I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view...
Rally legend Paddy Hopkirk reopened the Kop Hillclimb after 84 years, speeding up the hill in a 2009 Mini after...
Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham’s youngest son, David, having won back the rights to the Brabham name in 2012, has recently launched a new web site chronicling the exploits of three generations of family drivers, as well as 30 years as a car constructor and Formula One team. Become...
The family is an integral element of human life, and in many instances this is also true of racing. In...
1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race...
Dan Gurney once tried to show me how to wring the neck of a recalcitrant racecar to squeeze out that last tenth of a second, and I blew it. The lesson, I mean. Couldn’t take in a thing… except something important about Dan Gurney. You don’t get a lot of...
In the early going of the 1934 Coppa Acerbo, in Pescara, Italy, Hans Stuck’s Auto Union Type A led Achille...
Formula One crossed an historic turning point on March 2, but I think it is safe to say that almost...
As classic car enthusiasts, we live with a foot in two completely different worlds. One foot is firmly placed in the past, with steel and iron and rubber molded into a moving object from a time when computers were science fiction and electricity’s predominant purpose was to light up your...
Few figures in American racing history have had as much impact as Harry Miller, builder of an incredible range of...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
A Good (Car) Guy is Hard to Find: A Girl’s Memoir By Petra Perkins with Louis Galanos Memory: A blazing fireball was racing into the stands — headed straight at me — so I fled in a panic. High-pitched engines shriek by, one after another, in endless, killing, head-splitting noise....
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
On May 25, Giulio Alfieri, one of the giants of 20th century motorsport, strode through the scrutineering paddock of the 2000 Mille Miglia Storica in Brescia, Italy, hardly looking right or left. Which is odd because three postwar Maseratis were in the enclosure at the time and, of course, Alfieri...
On March 28th, at 2pm, the North East Motor Sports Museum will host a special speaker presentation on the Rockingham...
The MGA should have happened several years before it did. The story of why it didn’t and how it came...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
In the 1980s, the idea of a Japanese Luxury Sedan was a radical concept. Most North American perceptions around Japanese...
I was 19-years old and working nights at a Shell service station in San Jose, California, with my friend Jim...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
An incredible number of factors are involved in getting a supercar from the drawing board through concept stages and into...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has recently produced a video presenting the 1942 Lincoln Zephyr Limousine that was built factory fitted...
In 2021, Hagerty was able to track more than double 2020’s auction sales with 12,500 UK and European auction results. The results for 2021 are impressive with a total of £310.8 million in sales of classic and collector vehicles, with 14 of them sold for more than £1m, a big...
The BMW 3.0 CSL was equally dominant on race tracks and a beauty to behold on public streets. This touring...
In many ways the racing career of Dave MacDonald embodies the image of the light glowing twice as bright, lasting...
Being a dedicated student of the arcane (or having entirely too much time on my hands), I once calculated that in the entire history of Formula One, from its inception in 1948 to present day, only nine drivers ever managed to compete in three successive decades. They are Harry Schell,...
Sam Hanks may have been a quiet man who preferred to keep to himself, but at the wheel of a...
Our journey began at Bellefille, an incredibly beautiful chateau about 20 clicks west of Le Mans. Bellefille, literally, “beautiful girl,”...
Timing is everything, and Graham’s great automobiles are a proof—unfortunately. That’s because, despite the fact that their company made great cars, the Graham brothers got into the business at the worst possible time. As a result, most of us have never even seen a Graham. My experience with Grahams was...
