John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
The Paddock at Watkins Glen in 1954 is filled with a representative sampling of the caars being raced, including Jaguar XK120 coupes and roadsters, a couple of Porsche 356 roadsters and a coupe, an Austin-Healey 100 and lots of T-series MGs, all getting their numbers on and preparing to go...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was...
There was a summer of my life when I often walked back home from an evening ramble in a European...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on our TV screens. Or at least on mine. For me, the new breed of supercircuits mostly invokes disappointment and, worse, boredom. There are exceptions. Even on TV, which tends to...
What started as an April Fool’s joke on a long defunct track, ended up becoming an interesting insight into fear...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
We seem to hear more and more these days about the sorry state of the media. I’d say I have...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
September 30, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of opening day at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit. To help commemorate this occasion, Bob Rubin is installing a permanent three-screen video artwork in the new golf clubhouse on the track property that will evoke the evolution of “The Bridge” as a human...
This month’s featured Web site comprises a large collection of photography from East Coast road racing events in the 1960s....
The OSCA of Al Garthwaite on the starting grid gets last minute advice from the crew.Photo: Ozzie Lyons www.petelyons.com What? You’ve never heard of the Callicoon Races? Ridiculous! You’ve heard of Watkins Glen, Bridgehampton, Elkhart Lake, Put-in-Bay and even Brynfan Tyddyn. But maybe not the races near Callicoon, New York....
As you’ll read in this month’s news, there is exciting news brewing on Long Island, as a strong movement is...
Recent developments in Long Island, New York, indicate that the fate of Bridgehampton Raceway may not be sealed after all....
After sending in last month’s column, I was prepared for the Editor’s call to discuss corrections, or photo selection, or the need to take his deadlines more seriously. Instead, he said, “You mentioned Bridgehampton; I just heard it’s finally getting closed down.” My spirit sagged. After all these years, I...
