Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
Cale Yarborough Juan Manuel Fangio 1 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman, sharing a Porsche 908 Spyder, win the 1000-kilometer sports car race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1969). 2 Paul Tracy drives a Lola-Honda to victory in the CART Miller Lite 250 on the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis,...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail beast from 1978, the company’s first racecar with water-cooled cylinder heads. However, that particular machine was on tour in China and not due back at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw, way down under his bluff bow, was my little white Volvo 122S hustling uphill just as hard. Obviously, both of us were enthusiasts caught up in the joyous rhythm of...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
Patrick Peter’s Classic Endurance Racing series came to a fine season-ending round at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, with...
Matra MS80 Car: Matra MS80 / Engine: Ford Cosworth DFV 90º V8 / Maker: Matra / Bore X Stroke: 85.7 mm / 64.8 mm / Year: 1969 / Capacity: 2,991 cc / 182.5 cu in / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 430 bhp / 321 KW @ 10,000 rpm /...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or...
Whatever the 2010 Formula One season holds in the way of drama, scandal, and controversy, there will be one point of genuine interest, and that is whether Michael Schumacher can still cut it. Schumacher is the ideal yardstick. He retired on top of his game and there was no driver...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
George Follmer Willy Mairesse 2 Belgian Formula One and sports car racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide (1969). 4 Arturo Merzario drives an Alfa Romeo T33/SC/12 to victory in the World Sports Car Championship race at Imola, Italy (1977). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and the Sports Car Club of South Africa will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Kyalami 9-Hour race with a Historic Sports, GT, and Saloon Car meeting at the circuit on November 22, 2008. While the first 9-hour was run at the old Grand...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special Lotus 72 (1973). 3 Nino Vaccarella drives a Maserati 200SI to victory in the Mendola Hillclimb in Bolzana, Italy (1960). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to...
The FIA (Federation International Automobile) sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
