A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
This Uli Ehret painting displays the Eau Rouge corner at Spa-Francorchamps back in 1967. The setting is exactly as it appeared in that year, when Dan Gurney won that year’s Belgian Grand Prix with his Gurney-Weslake-powered Eagle against the mighty opposition of Jim Clark and the other F1 stars of...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a sense the latter part of the Lotus 78. Both of those cars were essentially ground-effect cars with sliding skirts. The initial concept of the Brabham BT46 was to have surface-cooling...
Illustrating Patrick Quinn’s article on the Bira MG K3 (VR December, 2009) was a photograph of Ron Uffindel, who frequently...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its tanks still first-lap full, was simply what one does when action must be instantaneous. He says he didn’t even think about it. Yet the rescue will forever define this American...
Lord March opened the gates of his estate to members of the media for the annual taster for Goodwood’s Festival...
Alfred Neubauer Biography He was born on 29 March 1891 in Novy Jicin, near Ostrava, in what is now the...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a handful of companies that can trace their motor racing heritage back to the start of the 20th century. But Alfa’s is a kind of pear-shaped pedigree, in which the Italian...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country,...
Stirling Moss Biography In the United States when you hear the name Mario Andretti the first image that comes to your mind is auto racing. The same can be said for Stirling Moss on the “other side of the pond.” Moss was born to racing with both parents involved in...
June 2010 Tales from the Toolbox By Michael Oliver Chances are good that one of the reasons you read this...
It appears that Monza, home of the Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix of Italy for the last 65 years, has been saved. A political outcome seems to have been brokered after much posturing and pontificating that gravitated right up to the cabinet level. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has agreed...
The Important People Behind The Silver Arrows As part of our ongoing series, we take a look at the history...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly...
The McLardo Formula One team was proud to announce today the in utero signing of its next driving champion Clive/Calista Shoemaker, to a life-time management deal to commence upon his (or perhaps her) birth this coming August. Team principle Don Rennis, stated that he was pleased to sign the reputedly...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in...
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by...
Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you can’t laugh at yourself, what good are you? To paraphrase another old saw, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. So, it...
