Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his...
Remember when Hollywood used to produce the odd “fun” movie—in somewhat the same theme as “the Grand Old Opry?” A...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving a Climax-powered Lotus 18, wins the USAC Road Racing Championship Formula Libre event at Hilltop Raceway in Bossier City, Louisiana (1962). 4 • Greg Weld, sprint and Indy car racer...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age...
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most...
The Grand Prix Association of Long Beach has announced that Juan Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves will be honored with induction to the city’s Walk of Fame in ceremonies beginning at 11 a.m. on Thursday April 12, preceding this year’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Colombian Montoya (left, above)...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to NASCAR, Gurney laid claim to a long and successful career as a team owner, car constructor and truly one of racing’s nicest and most approachable individuals. As a long-time friend...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, in 1967, where he qualified 3rd but retired with suspension problems. Rice grew up about 100 miles from Watkins Glen, and was 9...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created 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...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon, has passed away at the age of 91. After meeting future husband Graham, at a rowing club function in 1950, Bette would four years later be swept up into the...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
Have you ever stopped to add up all of the different driver nationalities in motor racing and perhaps spotted a trend? It is an interesting study. As the world has shrunk travel-wise, so the mobility of younger people has opened up many an opportunity to them—which is by no means...
February 2018 Mario Andretti: A Life in Pictures By Mario Donnini The latest in author Donnini’s series of “Life in...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits...
Fresh from winning the FIA Founding Members’ Heritage Cup for last year’s event, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will try to improve itself with an exciting list of run groups for the 2018 outing, scheduled for August 23-26 at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. Topping the list of 15...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin Chapman’s JPS Lotus 78 and 79 Formula One cars. Andretti made his Grand Prix debut with Lotus in 1968, qualifying on pole for the United States GP at Watkins Glen....
A little over 20 years ago, I made a radical switch from research scientist to magazine publisher. That ridiculous move...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow,...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade from U.S.-sourced vegetable-dyed leather. The dark brown is harness leather, will turn to a slightly lighter, reddish brown color. Leather thickness is 8-10 oz., 3.2mm-4mm. The side panels are saddle...
