Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible...
With the holiday season hard upon us once again, we thought it would be a good idea to take a...
The man who facilitated Danny Sullivan’s rise to motor racing stardom has died of cancer at his home in Milan, Italy. Garvin Brown, whose great grandfather founded the Brown-Forman Corp. that produces Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey, and who’s best known in automotive circles as the patron who enabled a struggling...
Patrick Peter’s Classic Endurance Racing series came to a fine season-ending round at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, with...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
In honor of its 75th anniversary this year, we’ve partnered with Jaguar to bring you this special issue commemorating the famed British marque’s long and illustrious racing history. Within these pages you’ll read of Jaguar’s virtual dominance of Le Mans in the ’50s, its triumphant return to La Sarthe in...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
April 2010 Racing for Mercedes-Benz By Hartmut Lehbrink With the re-entry of Mercedes-Benz into Grand Prix racing as a factory...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched a championship intended solely for FIA specification pre-1966 Minis. Rounds of the series will be held at Masters Festivals and Top Hat meetings in 2010, highlighted by two races at...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has reached an agreement with the Detroit Science Center to relocate a significant...
Keith Duckworth Biography Since the partnership was formed in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth along with Bill Brown...
Motor racing lost a vibrant and influential figure with the October 31 passing of Tom Wheatcroft. The man who brought Donington Park back to life as a racing circuit died in his sleep at the age of 87, after a long illness. True to his lifelong form, he had bounced...
October 2009 Fast Ladies By Jean-Françoise Bouzanquet Women play the most crucial role in human life as mothers of us...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney enhanced his record as an all-around champion there. Some assume that post-WWII stock car road racing started at Riverside, but that’s not true. There were five stock car events on...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
This official site for Aston Martin Racing offers an insider’s view of the marque’s competition efforts over the years. Most...
THE STORY OF MALAYA’S RACING SPECIALS The Malayan-built Special has always been an integral part of the racing movement in that part of the world, yet it is an aspect of the motoring scene that is least understood and often neglected. Initially, these Specials were simply “cobbled” together using bits...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the...
Vintage Greeting Cards Dinstinctive collection of vintage-themed holiday greeting cards. 10 packs of cards starting at $35. www.viacelli.com/vintage Become a...
March 2008 Market Madness Dear Editor, The reason Sotheby’s share prices dropped so suddenly is that the art they were selling was at “guaranteed reserve,” i.e., when they couldn’t sell it, they were obliged to buy it themselves. I wonder if this sort of arrangement ever happens at a car...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
Maverick, land-speed record-holder Art Arfons passed away on December 3, 2007. He was 81 years old. An accomplished drag racer...
Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but I knew how I wanted it to feel and began with something I knew about. It opened with preparations for a British Grand Prix at Silverstone. There were the marshals...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be...
March 2007 Racing in the Rain By John Horsman The name John Horsman may not be a household name in motorsport, but with a CV like his, it should be. Horsman was first hired, as a young engineer, by racing impresario John Wyer. Horsman began his career sorting out gearbox...
As old age creeps up, I think of things that are a must for me and perhaps also for readers...
The immutable rule of life is that every living thing is born, lives and dies. Publications are living things, and...
Historic Formula Junior racing in Britain and Europe has steadily grown over the past decade in both the total number of events and in their prestige. With fields at such events as Monaco, Goodwood, and Porto, F.Jr. has regained a level of interest in Europe not seen since its heyday...
