I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
I went to Daytona the year Dan Gurney’s All American Racers /Toyota GTP won the race, their first Daytona 24...
The SCCA has announced the addition of a new class to the 2020 Summit Racing Equipment Road Racing program that will include vintage GTP and Camel Lights cars, as well as Le Mans Prototypes. The new SCCA car class added by the CRB for 2020 is named Prototype X (PX)...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of 75. Knepp made his first splash on the American motorsports scene working with Pete Brock’s Brock Racing Enterprises as it built 2.5-Liter Trans-Am-winning Datsun 510s for John...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s...
Tom Kendall may be best remembered for his dominant 1997 championship season in the SCCA’s Trans-Am series when he set a record with 11 consecutive victories in Jack Roush’s All Sport Ford Mustang on the way to his fourth Trans-Am crown, but he’s much more than that. He began his...
The author’s primary impression of the car is of the need to keep the revs up so that the boost,...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Gilles Villeneuve Patrick Tambay 1 Patrick Tambay drives a Ferrari 126C2 to victory in the Grand Prix of San Marino in Imola, Italy (1983). 6 Albert Divo, driving a Bugatti 35B/2.3, wins the Targa Florio (1928). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
As you’ll read on the Vintage Roadcar side of the magazine this month, I recently had a very interesting and...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was...
Motor Racing: The Pursuit of Victory By Anthony Carter This new book is not a treatise on the competitive spirit...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into today’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, but not all of those races were run for a full 24 hours. The first two runnings had a three-hour duration, while the next two...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda...
Pete Lyons I edged my toes to the brink of an abyss a thousand feet deep, issuing my own small dare to this mighty mountain, and from this precarious apex of the world I gazed a hundred miles out to the vast eastern horizon, where dawnlight was rising to join...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
Historic motor racing organizer Masters Historic Racing has confirmed details of its series of races for Group C /GTP/IMSA sports...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in the Toohey’s 1000 at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1989). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the last race of the 750kg racing formula, the...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
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 the factory for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg all still exist, and mostly in original form. Equally amazing is this publication by Australian historian Neville Webb into the...
