Involved with mechancial things virtually all his life, John Barnard first worked in racing at Lola, then a fertile training...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced single-seater...
The Eppie Wietzes F5000 Championship-winning McLaren M-10B By Kevin Triplett | Photos by Dennis Gray From his earliest days as...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior, but with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
Behind Le Mans, The Film in Photographs By Michael Keyser Arguably one of the most influential racing feature films of...
Former F1, sports car and F5000 driver Peter Gethin died on December 5 after a lengthy illness. Gethin is remembered...
Widely experienced chief mechanic and author Sal Incandela has passed away at his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada. He was 61. During an extensive career in racing as a mechanic, engineer, crew chief and team principal, the Italian-born, French-educated Incandela worked for several championship-winning teams, including...
After three celebrations on the East Coast at Daytona and Lime Rock, Porsche’s triennial Rennsport Reunion came to California in...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars from 1967 to 1971, during which they won 43 of the series’ 71 races, 23 of them consecutively. It was an astounding performance in which New Zealander Bruce McLaren won...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
McLaren M6 The first car, M6A-1, was completed and ready for testing at Goodwood on June 19, 1967, more that...
Helmets Make the Man Dear Editor I read Mike Lawrence’s “Helmets” column with great interest. I did my own helmet design, using horizontal red stripes, which were meant to evoke the stripes on the American flag. The idea was to have the design be visible from any angle, and also...
Porsche is one of those marques about which I feel ambivalence. Unless the six numbers click into place on the...
In 1994, I became Technical Director for RML Ltd., which was competing in the RAC British Touring Car Championship. John...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing...
McLaren MP4/4 Car: McLaren MP4/4 / Engine: Honda RA168E, 1,494 cc (91.2 cu in), 80° turbocharged V6 / Maker: McLaren /...
A sculpture featuring Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/6 from his last season as Formula One World Champion is to be sold...
Rodger Ward Louis Chiron 1 Louis Chiron leads an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3 finish in the French Grand Prix at Montlhéry (1934). 2 In the German “Silver Arrows” only American appearance, Bernd Rosemeyer drives an Auto Union to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in New York (1937). Become a Member...
The Second Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, which will take place June 4–5, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, has...
McLaren Cars celebrated 30 years of carbon fiber technology at Silverstone in March when a small group of journalists were...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after Pole Day qualifying. In 1971 that group included Peter Revson on pole in the works McLaren-Offenhauser, Mark Donohue in the middle with Roger Penske’s Sunoco McLaren-Offenhauser, and Bobby Unser on the...
The noise and spectacle of the Can-Am Challenge Cup sees a rebirth in 2011. The revival of this iconic series...
McLaren M8 Robin Herd had left and was replaced by Gordon Coppuck, who had worked earlier for the National Gas...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not have matched his talent or his promise. Like a number of young South Americans of his generation, Moreno realized that if he were to make a go of his racing...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival 2011 will be held the weekend of June 4-5, at Infineon Raceway Sears Point in Sonoma, California. The second annual Sonoma Historics will feature the iconic McLaren marque, announced Steve Earle, president of General Racing, Ltd. “McLaren, like Ferrari and Porsche and other great names...
