1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build...
Birmingham, AL • May 19-27, 2012 There was little difference between early Lotus street and racecars. They drifted away from...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Emerson Fittipaldi, double Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and 1989 U.S. Indycar National Champion, will be the...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario,...
British racing driver Sir John Henry Douglas Whitmore has passed away at the age of 79 in the aftermath of a severe stroke. Perhaps best known for winning the 1961 British Saloon Car Championship with an 848-cc Mini he’d bought for £400, Whitmore became one of the top British touring...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
“Where have all the young teams gone?” the words of that famous song with a one word alteration could well...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest of honor at the ninth annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner held in conjunction with the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last Thursday evening. The gala event at...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a European...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By Peter Darley Peter Darley served as Team Lotus’ official photographer during the glory days of the ’60s and ’70s, and while his images may have enjoyed widespread dissemination in period,...
The Historic Motor Sports Association has scheduled its 3rd annual Barber Historics, at Barber Motorsports Park, just east of Birmingham,...
Two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi (above, Roger Dixon photo), who also won a pair of Indy 500s and...
The Eifelland Type 21 displayed on VR’s stand at Race Retro, Stoneliegh, UK last weekend was a true star. Luigi Colani’s F1 racer hadn’t been seen in England in its current guise since the 1972 British GP, driven by Rolf Stommelen. Sadly, just a few weeks after the GP, the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Allan McCall, who enjoyed a career filled with “career moments,” from working with Jim Clark in saloon cars, F1 and at Indy to building his own line of Tui racing cars, has passed away at the age of 76, apparently succumbing to complication from heart valve surgery. Serving at various...
Joel E. Finn, author, racer and computer industry pioneer, died January 28 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 78. The...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the grand unveiling of two high-end yachts from two well-known racing nameplates. In late September, Aston Martin debuted its 37-foot AM37 powerboat at the Monaco Yacht Show, while Mercedes-Benz made a...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor at this year’s event as it celebrates racers of vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiats and (who knows?… perhaps even a few Isettas and Siatas). Beyond the tribute to Italy, the event...
