Driving legends Janet Guthrie and Dale Earnhardt will comprise the 2020 inductee class of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
Longtime Indianapolis 500 car entrant Rolla Vollstedt, perhaps best remembered for bringing Janet Guthrie to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1976 as the first female driver to be entered for the Indianapolis 500, passed away Sunday, October 22 in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 99. Passionate, articulate, outspoken and...
One of the things to particularly love about ladies, is their ability to “multi-task,” something most men are not very...
Melbourne-based auction house Mossgreen dipped its toe into the Sydney automotive auction scene on Sunday May 28 as 20 vehicles...
Legends: Pioneer Women in Racing is one of three panel discussions that will take place Saturday, January 14, in The Grand Ballroom of the Arizona Biltmore during the Arizona Concours d’Elegance. The noontime discussion will illuminate the lives of notable women racers throughout time, and the panel will include veteran...
Mario Andretti Rick Mears Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 Gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open for practice for the first Indy...
For the seventh and final time, the Centennial of the historic Vanderbilt Cup races was celebrated on New York’s Long...
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy, 60 mph was thought an insurmountable barrier; doctors even hypothesized that the human body would be unable to breathe at that speed and, therefore, the driver would surely die. As...
There have been many notable women drivers over the course of 100 years of motor sport history, from Helle Nice...
Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, was inducted into the International...
While many racecar drivers have earned the title of “living legend,” there are very, very few that can also lay claim to the title of “pioneer.” Janet Guthrie is one such driver. From a decade of building and racing sports cars in the SCCA, Guthrie catapulted onto the sports sections...
The resume is impressive—college graduate in physics, aeronautical research engineer, licensed pilot and instructor, NASA Astronaut candidate, but there is...
Janet Guthrie Carlos Pace 1 NASCAR racer Dave Marcis is born (1941). 2 Sports car racer Nino Vacarella is born...
