Photo: Ian Welsh When you look at any listing of Lotus competition cars built from the first Lotus VI of...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as stepping stones to Formula One and the...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior, but with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One...
January 2011 In the L&M F5000 Championship round at Michigan International Speedway on May 20, 1973, Peter Gethin raced this Chevron B24-Chevrolet for Marathon/Shierson Racing, claiming 3rd place. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his name racing automobiles. They weren’t just any automobiles either, but the fastest most prestigious racing cars in the world. He was a race winner in Formula 1 and the original...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to raise funds to supplement the Center’s budget. The latest of these cars was a 1984 Corvette originally owned by Jim Gilmore, long-time friend and sponsor of A.J. Foyt. Last November’s...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
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...
June 2009 FREIK—the Private Life of the Freikaiserwagen By Rob and Hugh Dunsterville Freik was most definitely not a freak....
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
July 2008 Gentleman Jack By Graham Gauld If you know who Jack Sears is, this book will fill in all...
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style”...
1972 Lola T290-Tecno Here is your first question for 10 points: How many racing car manufacturers have been going nonstop for 50 years? Answer: two. Let me refine the question a bit. How many manufacturers of only racing cars have been going for 50 years and are still in international...
