That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times,...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida (1974). 2 Alpine Renault A110s finish 1-2-3 in the Tour de Course rally in France, with Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Michel Vial on board...
Beautiful examples of some of the oldest Indy roadsters once again took to the Milwaukee Mile–America’s oldest active track for...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers?...
Seems unfathomable that we have never looked at this site (forgive us, Ferrari fans), but better late than never, and especially so given this month’s feature about the ex-Ascari Ferrari that enjoyed a long afterlife. In any case, this link will take you to the History section of the main...
1990 Leyton House CG901/3Photo: Mike Jiggle Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed...
Eddie Rickenbacker Soichiro Honda 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 F1 World Champion Alan...
Tony Parella They say there is no greater zealot, than a recent convert. Though he came to the sport fairly recently in 2011, Corvette racer Tony Parella wasted no time in deeply immersing himself in the deep end of the sport. After selling his highly successful telecommunications company, Parella turned...
Legendary chief mechanic and engineer Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr. and 1968 Indianapolis 500 pole winner Joe Leonard are the latest inductees to the Auto Racing Hall of Fame at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, celebrated during race week ceremonies for the 2013 500-mile race. Meyer, son of Louis Meyer, Indy’s first...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left his fingerprints all over seven decades of racecar design innovation, with many of today’s standard practices being solutions he created on the run for problems that popped up in his...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Sam Posey was presented with the Spirit of Competition award at a gala dinner at the Simeone Automotive Museum in Philadelphia during the first week of December. Posey distinguished himself as a racing driver by competing in Formula One, Indycars, Can-Am, Trans-Am, Formula 5000 and endurance races at venues like...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
As far as I’m concerned the greatest racecar I ever drove is the car that gave me the greatest happiness...
At last count there are more than 1,200 billionaires walking the Earth. This means that regardless of wealth, there aren’t nearly enough of Harry Miller’s fabulous racing machines to go around. How then does a semi-retired dump truck driver come to own two Millers? Mike Guffey loves stuff. He loves...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
There are cars, and there are cars. Some come and stay, many come and pass on. A few appear briefly but don’t make it to the grid, and then they disappear. Thanks to historic racing and car collecting fever, however, a number have managed to rise from the ashes. VR...
One of the most inspiring stories in the history of motorsport recently took place, and though few in the motorsport...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
Small independent shops are keystones of the automobile restoration industry, and among the more notable of these is Cavaglieri Restorations, recently relocated to a new 4,000-square-foot facility near Van Nuys airport in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. Proprietor Joey Cavaglieri’s early automotive experience came as a racing mechanic, beginning with Pete...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get...
An E.R.A. Album, 1973-2010 By Alan Cox Publishing and working with publishers can be a brutal experience. As electronic media...
Some fellow petrolheads have been asking what I think about the movie Anonymous, and the thesis that the true author of the Shakespearean canon was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. You can make a case for anything provided you ignore evidence. In 1616, two of England’s leading poets,...
