Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
John Fitch Bob Tullius 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer to make a tough call It’s like tasking a parent to choose between children. Each is dearest for different reasons. Nonetheless, we believed it not inappropriate to ask Dan Gurney...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and...
November 2009 Canadian Hidden Treasures Dear Editor, I enjoyed your recent “Hidden Treasures” article on Roy Hayman. There are of course more things he has done, including converting Horst Kroll’s old Lola to a Frisbee look-alike. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered by American production-line V-8 engines of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race organizers, and team owners...
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory in the 220-km Padua-Vicenza-Bassano-Treviso-Padua race. Also this is the first race for Felice Nazzaro (1900). 2 The first official Formula Ford race is held at Brands Hatch, England (1967). Become...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars only had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights, and various safety requirements....
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days of his venture with Ford. The Ford program had earned the company some money and provided the impetus to develop the T70 in both coupe and open form. The T70...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Third-time charm! That’s what we Can-Am fans were hoping for 40 Septembers ago. On the first of this month in 1968, our beloved Big Bangers would bellow to life for their third season. Maybe this time the grandly unrestricted sports cars, stunningly powerful and torque-rich machines that were faster than...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport in Cleveland, Ohio (1989). 4 John Zeitler, driving a Zeitler, wins the first ever Formula Super Vee race, held at Lime Rock, Connecticut...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf Porsche 917K he shared with Jo Siffert finishes behind the Pedro Rodriguez/Leo Kinnunen team car which he also co-drove late in the race (1970). 2 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to new heights of popularity in the United States. The series was governed by an open and simple set of rules, which created an environment that brought the most powerful and...
