Motor Racing Legends has announced the return of the Le Mans Legend historic support race to next year’s Le Mans...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed to stock car meetings at a track near my home in Dublin City, Ireland. I crashed it, bashed it, took it home after the race and fixed it, so I...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
Tony Southgate began his lengthy career in motorsports by joining Lola Cars in the early days of that venerable marque’s...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each won a world drivers title with the German groundbreaker, and Michèle would have done the same if Walter Röhrl hadn’t got in her way. But she still beat 21 top...
Louis Wagner Gaston Chevrolet 2 Jacky Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand...
This month’s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice became the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) at Watkins Glen International has announced it will once again offer a Cobra...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising and aerodynamic devices changed the sport forever. Is adversaries were some of the greatest names in Grand Prix history, Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Graham Hill and perhaps the greatest of...
Formula Ford was a racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing...
Vic Elford will serve as Grand Marshal for the June 11–13, 2010, Legends of Motorsports, a Bobby Rahal Signature Event,...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsport; the...
Bob Holden For anyone involved in motor sport within Australia, the name of Bob Holden has been a prominent one...
Veda and Karl Orr are legendary Hot Rodders. They were among the early racers who took to the dry lakes of Southern California in the 1930s, putting the go-pedal down as hard as they could. Although the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) was formed in 1937, it was not until...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand in most of motor racing’s varied formulae, and with a number of famous names of the track. He has probably forgotten more about the sport than many care to remember....
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to...
Among the over 400 cars set to cross the block during RM’s Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale auction later this...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of the American all-rounders who could, and would, drive virtually any kind of car. After a tour of duty as chauffeur for the head of NORAD Command in Colorado, the Washington...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
For all the talk today of “level playing fields” and equal opportunities for all, it has to be understood that...
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting good racing drivers. “If they’re quick, they’re good,” he growled. So was that all there was to it? Lap times? Whatever it was, he ended up employing the likes of...
