The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip...
In the wake of the success of this year’s inaugural event at the historic O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs,...
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...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500...
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...
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style” cars powered by 5-liter, normally aspirated, V-8 engines. In its heyday, in the mid-1970s, F5000 attracted big-name drivers like Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, Sr., Jody Scheckter, and Brian Redman, piloting...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first world drivers’ championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left. But we don’t do politics here, just history, so let’s have a look back at interesting times when oval drivers first tried their hands at turning both ways. The big...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Performance perv that I am, I’m turned on by naked racecars. Even partially undressed ones. Lift an engine cover, unveil a shapely suspension arm, merely de-Dzus an access panel and I’m there, slavering. I simply groove on racing’s luscious secret places. Pete Lyons That’s probably one more reason I so...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
As we’ve become familiar with, over the past two decades, the concept of ground effects—that is managing the airflow underneath a speeding racecar to generate more downforce and grip—was arguably one of the most revolutionary innovations in motorsport. In its earliest form, it manifested itself as a snowmobile engine in...
1966 Eagle-Weslake, Chassis 1G-102 We have had the discussion many times before…What is the greatest racecar of all time?…so we...
We raced the car with the V-12 for the first time at Brands Hatch, at the Race of Champions.I remember...
This month’s featured site is the official Web site of Dan Gurney and his All American Racers (AAR). Formed by Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby in 1965, after their victorious year at Le Mans, AAR went on to produce 157 racecars from 1965 to 2000. During its nearly 40-year-long history...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
As we’ve said in this space many times before, thank heaven for the Internet’s ability to share one man’s obsession...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
