The Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating 20 years since the first event in 1993. Unbelievably, the target audience for...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
Photo: Pete Lyons / www.petelyons.com Pete Lyons If you have a two-car garage, do you keep two cars in it? That would suggest you’re fairly normal. In Robert Judy’s, there must be a hundred racecars. Plus somewhere beyond 1000 racing books. Also magazines and videos and photographs and posters. Then...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
Gilles Villeneuve Patrick Tambay 1 Patrick Tambay drives a Ferrari 126C2 to victory in the Grand Prix of San Marino...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do so again. It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in 1963 at Daytona International Speedway, were it not...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on September 28, when Chris Economaki passed away just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Economaki may be best known as editor and publisher of the weekly racing newspaper National...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
The 9th Annual Charity Challenge will be hosted by the Classic Sports Racing Group at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, on October 6-7. In its first eight years, the CSRG Charity Challenge has raised more than half a million dollars for local charities. The event will include all the...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
An E.R.A. Album, 1973-2010 By Alan Cox Publishing and working with publishers can be a brutal experience. As electronic media takes over from the printed word, bringing a general downturn in the industry, great care must be taken to determine what is commercially viable. Now, however, there exist modern alternatives...
Mecum Auctions shocked the auction world with the late May announcement that they would be offering two icons from racing...
As you might imagine, a lot of disparate items stream into my email inbox. In addition to the usual barrage...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has announced that this year’s class of inductees will include Indy 500 winner and U.S. National Champion Danny Sullivan, legendary engine builder Ed Pink, five-time Le Mans winner and two-time Sportscar World Champion Derek Bell, famed hot rodder Vic Edelbrock, motocross great Ricky...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Let me get my bias out of the way, right up front—I’m not a NASCAR fan. Though I’ve tried at...
Ralph DePalma John Surtees 1 Sportscar racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr....
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into today’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, but not all of those races were run for a full 24 hours. The first two runnings had a three-hour duration, while the next two...
