We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally...
A couple of years and a bit ago I suggested in this spot that, during these times of economic stress,...
The FIA’s vaunted Formula One World Championship celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, with gala reunions of all its living...
Few automobile marques evoke images of style, speed and sports better than the Prancing Horse of Ferrari. Fortunately for motorsports fans, Ferrari North America will give them ample reason for such appreciation by returning its popular Ferrari Challenge race series to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California this May...
On behalf of Australia’s Victorian Historic Racing Register (VHRR), well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings is seeking four cars and drivers...
Twenty-five years ago, a company called Amstrad launched an inexpensive word processor. The package was crude, each three-inch disk held...
December 2010 Driving his unique Zerex Special, a converted Cooper Formula One car, Roger Penske was a force in sports car racing in the USA and England during the early 1960s. He’s seen here, with the by then John Mecom-owned car in its later two-seater configuration, winning at Brands Hatch in...
Harry A. Miller Bobby Allison 1 Dan Gurney drives a Weslake Ford-powered Eagle to victory in the USAC Championship race...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
Peter Warr, who will be best remembered as the man who served as team manager for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus Formula One team and kept the operation running in the wake of Chapman’s death, has himself passed away at his home in France following a heart attack on October 4....
The man who facilitated Danny Sullivan’s rise to motor racing stardom has died of cancer at his home in Milan,...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
Tony Southgate began his lengthy career in motorsports by joining Lola Cars in the early days of that venerable marque’s existence. The young Englishman became the first drawing office employee of founder Eric Broadley’s growing company, a firm that would serve as fertile ground for a number of aspiring young...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions...
A professional racing driver’s performance is indelibly linked to the performance of a racing car he likes. I have been...
Louis Wagner Gaston Chevrolet 2 Jacky Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand 9 Hour Race at Kyalami, South Africa (1968). 7 The Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide is Ayrton Senna’s last F1 win (1993). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races from 1970 to 1973. Ayrton Senna drove 98T/4 in eight races and several test sessions in 1986. These cars were the very first and the very last John Player Specials…they...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year hiatus, and among the events supporting the featured contest on Le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was an appearance by the cars and drivers of Historic Grand Prix. HGP’s members present cars...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...
