No other Grand Prix winner has ever sung Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo in public or been able to cook like...
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a...
The 4th Grand Prix Historique de Monaco, held May 15–16, was again over-subscribed and Jean Sage, former team manager for...
Richard Petty Antonio Ascari 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for Team Penske’s first Champ Car victory (1971). 4 Frank Verbeck wins $50,000 when he drives a Fiat to victory in the 444-mile Pan-Pacific Road Race from Los Angeles to Sacramento. Longest race on...
Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that...
FORMULA ONE & TWO AT REIMS, 1958 | It could never happen now. Ian Burgess was a works Cooper driver...
Bruce McLaren Jean Alesi 1 Rudolph Caracciola, driving a Fanfir, finishes 4th in his first auto race at Avus, in Germany (1922). 1 Indy car racer Tom Sneva is born (1948). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
John Fitch Tony Adamowicz 2 Tony Adamowicz, racer and founding vice president of the Polish Racing Drivers Association, is born...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
Pedro Rodriguez A.J. Foyt 1 FIA declares there can be sponsorship on cars participating in racing they sanction, provided the sponsor’s logo is no larger than one square foot (1968). 2 Pedro Rodriguez wins the South African Grand Prix driving a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for...
You know, I had the experience of working with some great teams and on some “interesting” projects. For example, I...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
One sunny spring day in Spain, twenty-three Grand Prix drivers shut themselves into a van in a race paddock, refusing to come out and drive their F1 cars. The event promoters threatened to seize the cars and all other team assets. Feelings escalated almost to the point of guns. Tragically,...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
George Follmer Masten Gregory 1 David Bruce-Brown, the first American to win a Grand Prix, dies during practice for the...
Robert Benoist Björn Waldegård 3 First race held at Monza, Italy, a Grand Prix Voiturette race, is won by Pietro Bordino in a Fiat 804-403 (1922). 3 Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a One-Mile Speed Record of 301.13 mph in his Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats (1935). Become a...
Alan Jones Tazio Nuvolari 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a practice crash for the...
2 Swede Savage dies from injuries suffered in a wreck 33 days earlier during the Indianapolis 500 (1973). Pedro Rodriguez...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo to victory in the Grand Prix of Monaco (1934). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
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