Motor Racing History – 3.5-litre Naturally-Aspirated Engines, Active Suspension and Electronic Driver Aids 1989 was another McLaren year but this...
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Edited & Reviewed by Rex McAfee McLaren’s new Artura GT4 The new McLaren Artura GT4 impressed on its competitive debut...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
The American Grand Prize – The Great Races By Dennis David The Vanderbilt cup under the control of the American...
1955 Syracuse Grand Prix – Sensation at Syracuse By Peter Lewis In October 1955, with nearly ten years of motor...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car and a great time in motorsport history,” this is the first book devoted solely to Ferrari’s 312P and 312PB models, and it features many rare and previously unpublished photos. The...
Retrospect from 1949 to 2023 Having just conquered the most prestigious challenge in endurance racing, Ferrari’s overall win at the...
At the beginning of the Formula One World Championship in 1950, there was no real list tightly controlling the specifications...
The Circuits Dominated by The Silver Arrows Avus Length: 19.29 km (11.98 miles) Fastest Lap: Rosemeyer (1937) – 276.32 km/h (171.74 mph) The name of the trace is actually the initials of the proper name; Automobil Verkehrs und Ubungs Strasse which translates roughly to Automobile Traffic and Practice Street. Plans for the...
Auto Union Type C Car: Auto Union Type C / Engine: 45 deg V16 / Maker: Auto Union / Bore...
In a month which hosted three of the most prestigious endurance races, all eyes turned to the hallowed ground of...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from pole position, turned out to be his only one although at least three others slipped from his grasp through various misfortunes. In his rookie year of 1961, he was leading...
After one hundred years of providing some of the finest motor racing on the planet, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest(ACO)...
Background The weekend’s highlight of the 2023 “Motul Course de Monterey” was round four of the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship....
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the factory team was ready to go for overall honors at the major endurance races, and at Le Mans in particular. Porsche was well known in the marketplace for creating the...
1933 Tourist Trophy – Sensation at Syracuse By Richard Hough “It seems perfectly apparent,” wrote Sammy Davis after the 1932...
City-to-City Race Car Drivers The great city-to-city races were the origin of motor-racing. Attempts had been made to organize an...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a road circuit near Nimes, France (1947). 3 Jody Scheckter drives a Trojan T101 to victory in the L&M Continental F5000 race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio (1973). Become a Member...
To mark 20 years since Bentley’s sixth victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and 100 years since the...
McLaren Automotive has revealed its most ambitious and exacting bespoke livery ever – the astonishingly complex 3-7-59 Theme. An elaborate...
The 1933 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1933 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 8-9, 1933 / Winner: Nuvolari – Compagnoni / Winning Speed: 67.85 mph/ Starters: 85 / Finishers: 52 The Italian economy continued to suffer along with most of Europe. Once again the larger cars began to depart at 8...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
Jules Goux John FitchPhoto: Mercedes 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near...
1968 German Grand Prix – Jackie Stewart’s Greatest Race By Jackie Stewart For Grand Prix drivers the German Grand Prix each year is a very special event because the Nurburgring is certainly the most difficult, the most treacherous, and the most demanding of the tracks that the circus travels to...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most spectacular successes in the history of international motorsport. With Irishman...
Mark Donohue Jr. Biography Mark Donohue Jr. trademark was his versatility. He raced and won in sports cars, Indy Cars, stock cars; on both oval tracks and road courses. He was a two-time USRRC Champion, a three-time SCCA Trans-Am Champion, a Can-Am Champion, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona,...
Photos courtesy of Chuck Andersen and Porsche AG. The 2022 IMSA 12 Hours of Sebring showed why the event is...
The resume is impressive—college graduate in physics, aeronautical research engineer, licensed pilot and instructor, NASA Astronaut candidate, but there is...
One of the Petersen Automotive Museum’s latest exhibits, “Corvettes in Competition: Racing America’s Sports Car,” continues to create quite a buzz. The collection revisits the history of the most iconic Corvette race cars to celebrate Corvette’s 70th anniversary. The display showcases the evolution of Chevrolet’s legendary sports car, from its...
