At its recent AGM, the British Racing Drivers Club unanimously elected Derek Warwick as its new president, replacing former F1...
Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona...
As you’ll read throughout this issue, in honor of this month’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV, we’re paying our own tribute to Porsche and perhaps the most iconic sports car of all time, the 911. Looking back over the past 50 years, it’s not difficult to see which two manufacturers have...
It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Porsche by Mailander By Karl Ludvigsen Rodolfo Mailander was a German photographer whose work had already achieved a degree of international recognition by the time he met author Ludvigsen in 1958. Although by that time he was working for Daimler-Benz, Mailander had been fortunate enough to be on the scene...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
In the days when racing’s regulations were somewhat less restrictive than perhaps they are now, designers occasionally looked beyond current...
In 1994, I became Technical Director for RML Ltd., which was competing in the RAC British Touring Car Championship. John Cleland and Jeff Allam were our drivers and we were racing Vauxhall Cavalier saloons. The following year John won the BTCC championship. Graham HumphrysPhoto: Mike Jiggle It was during this...
The headline story from this year’s Le Mans Legends race, prelude to the main 24-hour event, was the announcement of...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one...
A million clichés come to mind. Giant killer is probably the worst, pummelled to death by a thousand newspaper hacks, but that’s exactly what the original Ecurie Ecosse was. A meteor that came from nowhere and took the world’s endurance motor racing crown—twice. It was a shoestring operation working out...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing...
I was involved with the E-Type Jaguar right from its inception, initially as an employee under the wing of Lofty...
At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in June 1963. Americans Briggs Cunningham and Bob Grossman drove this Cunningham-entered, works-supported Jaguar E-Type to a 9th place finish, runner-up in the over-3-liter GT class. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Pete Lyons Have you ever crushed an aluminum can, then found yourself wondering, “Could I straighten it back out, like...
A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to write more history at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Dan Gurney, who teamed with A.J. Foyt to win Le Mans for Ford in 1967, and whose Eagle racing cars...
Real Racers By Stuart Codling An homage to the photographic work of Louis Klemantaski—and that of others from his eponymous...
Which sub-one-liter competition engine has the most international road racing victories of all time? OSCA? Bandini? Crosley? Abarth? Nardi? Moretti?...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born to a country postman and his wife on December 15, 1900 in Aunay-sous-Auneau, about 50 miles southwest of Paris. At 16, she broke loose from her provincial shackles and invaded...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver,...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the Eifel Race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1934). 4 The first organized midget race, sanctioned by the newly formed Midget Racing Association, is held in Sacramento, California (1933). Become a...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He...
When he contests the 24 Hours Nürburgring this June, sharing a car with his sons Johannes and Ferdinand, Hans-Joachim Stuck will close out his top-level motorsports driving career. Stuck, who turned 60 on New Year’s Day, has three victories in the classic German enduro for Touring Cars and GTs, including...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the marque on the weekend of August 18–21, as the Sunday finale of the circuit’s American Le Mans Series weekend. One part of the Corvette World Tribute will be a rededication...
