1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500 in his Texaco Star March Cosworth, it marked the culmination of a decade of effort at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. lightning quick Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with USAC, which had taken over Indy car racing from the AAA. USAC’s Duane Carter was interested because he wanted Indy car races in Italy (Monza), Germany (Avus), and France (Monthlery)....
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor pal Mike Doodson, live before a throng of thousands. Nominally, “The Dood” was a journalist like me, and remains so today, but for a few seasons in the ’70s, he...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered by American production-line V-8 engines of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race organizers, and team owners...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about history repeating itself with schisms and rebellion in Formula One than the news broke that Steve Earle and his General Racing, Ltd. would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
The title of my column reads: “The Fabulous Fifties.” The era is one I know something about. During that time, I raced, rallied, officiated, and was an SCCA Regional Board member. In addition, I shot photos, wrote articles, and had a wide friendship that included some of you. Also, I...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising and aerodynamic devices changed the sport forever. Is adversaries were some of the greatest names in Grand Prix history, Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Graham Hill and perhaps the greatest of...
One of the men who figured prominently in our tribute to Dan Gurney in last month’s issue, veteran Indycar mechanic...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the Sports Car Club of America. U. S. professional racing was governed by the American Automobile Association, but the function was taken over by the United States Auto Club in 1956...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
The Riverside International Automotive Museum has announced that Parnelli Jones will be the Honored Guest at the third annual Legends...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or the Can-Am. It was the pinnacle of American road racing. The cars were the ultimate in racing machines, to the extent that they were faster than Indycars and those running...
