As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was still a kid. Stan won the 1954 New Zealand International Grand Prix, four 1955 Victorian Trophies at Fisherman’s Bend, Melbourne, became the 1958 Australian Gold Star Champion and won the...
February 2011 Inside the Archives By Jesse Alexander Looking through stacks of old photographs I’m often struck by generally unseen...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
October 2009 Headed for his first Grand Prix victory, Nelson Piquet takes his Brabham BT49-Ford over the old “Linden Leap” at the 1980 United States Grand Prix West in Long Beach, California. Piquet qualified on pole and led all the way, taking a big step toward the first of his...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several F1 teams, is born (1956). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda president and CEO, is born (1936). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
This month’s Web site is essentially a photo album, by a fan for other fans, and features a variety of...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never...
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...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a government official he spent much of his childhood in the Brazilian capital, Brasília. At the age of 14 he was participating in kart races and was crowned Brazilian kart champion...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
West Coast photographer John Wilson started shooting pictures of racing in the 1960s at various racetracks in California. As such, he built up a sizable archive of shots that cover the Can-Am, Trans-Am, USAC, F1(Long Beach), NASCAR, SCCA club, NHRA and the SCCA’s F5000 series. This month’s Web site features...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use of their legs. But I had heard so many good things about this Swiss gentleman that I was determined to find him and invite him to the Monterey vintage car...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a...
Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that...
Long Beach, CA April 11-13, 2003 The 1968 Ferrari 312 of Todd Morici is chased by the Williams FW08 of Erich Joiner around the fountain at Turn 2. Photo: Greg Johnson Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
On April 11-13, the streets of Long Beach, California once again reverberated to the sound of a full field of...
The sound of a full-field of Formula One cars will once again reverberate through the streets of downtown Long Beach...
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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