1965 Monaco Grand Prix – Graham Hill ‘s Greatest Race By Graham Hill The 1965 Monte Carlo was a race,...
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Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said “sports,” not motor sports. He was one of the best-loved sports figures to come out of Southern California. For many of us enthralled with racing, he was our hero. Sam...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
Mark Donohue Jr. Biography Mark Donohue Jr. trademark was his versatility. He raced and won in sports cars, Indy Cars,...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the best books! Sometime in the 1980s, Tony Adriaensens had his first exposure to the FIAT 8V and 8V-powered SIATAs, while helping his brother transport an 8V for a classic car...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...
1973 Argentine Grand Prix – Emerson Fittipaldi’s Greatest Race By Emerson Fittipaldi Before the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix, I knew exactly how a world champion in any sport must feel. A lot of other people want to have a crack at the champion and I was very much in the...
1951 British Grand Prix – Froilán González’s Greatest Race By José Froilán González More than twenty years have passed since that...
1953 French Grand Prix – The New Boy Makes Good By Rodney Walkerley I find this a most difficult report...
1937 Donington Grand Prix – When The Germans Came to Donington by Rodney Walkerley The Donington Grand Prix of 1937 was the race and the year in which the already legendary German Grand Prix cars made their first appearance in Great Britain. Although I had been watching these cars and...
1934 French Grand Prix – Giants in the Ring By Barré Lyndon Although the French Grand Prix had always been...
1993 European Grand Prix – Racing Returns to Donington & We See Some True Senna Magic by Robert S. Butsch...
1921 French Grand Prix – When America Won The Grand Prix By Peter de Paolo After the Pay-off Banquet at Indianapolis where the prize money and the various trophies were awarded with the usual ceremony, we packed up, and the next day left for France, where Uncle Ralph de Palma...
1929 Tourist Trophy – A Great Irish Triumph By the Hon. H.R.S. Birkin The chief threat to a Bentley victory...
Whitney Straight Biography Because of modern commercial, testing and fitness demands placed on current drivers many have decried the current...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in a test organized by George Bignotti, during the latter months of 1965. George was the very distinguished chief mechanic who, I believe, holds the record of seven Indy 500 winners....
1935 German Grand Prix – The Maestro and the Pechvogel By Douglas S. Brown The proud aristocratic German felt that...
1938 Hungarian Grand Prix – Nuvolari Gets His Revenge By Dennis David In 1936 other cars known as die Silberpfeile or Silver Arrows raced in Hungary, that time on a 3.1 mille course within the Budapest Public Gardens. In the previous year the cars from Mercedes-Benz dominated the Grand Prix...
1938 German Grand Prix – A Briton’s Finest Hour By Cyril Posthumus 1939 Was the first year of the new...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1 on the open English road. One could take such liberties there in those green and pleasant days of yore. Pete Lyons “This is a car you’d better have pointed in...
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the...
The Canadian – American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) – The Ultimate Guide Introduction John Bishop, Executive Director of the Sports Car Club of America as his Competition Director, Jim Kaser to look into the possibility of forming a professional sports car series, one with a more international flavor than it’s US...
United States Grand Prix – The History, The Circuits, The Drivers & the Cars Road racing in America has taken...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For the first two years of the series it made sense, because both formulae allowed engines of 4,500-cc. After 1951, it made no sense at all, but the 500 was included...
