Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 10–12, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
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Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 14–16, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Aficionados of the Elva marque will celebrate its 55th Anniversary with a reunion at Elkhart Lake’s Road America on the...
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his name racing automobiles. They weren’t just any automobiles either, but the fastest most prestigious racing cars in the world. He was a race winner in Formula 1 and the original...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) have agreed to end their decade-long alliance. A consequent...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on our TV screens. Or at least on mine. For me, the new breed of supercircuits mostly invokes disappointment and, worse, boredom. There are exceptions. Even on TV, which tends to...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 11–13, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 15–17, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the main straight hill to start Heat 2, Cannon and Eaton occupy the front row, with Gethin alongside Adamowicz on the second. Photo: Pete Lyons / www.petelyons.com The Sixties was a decade...
I’ve always liked Blackhawk Farms Raceway, a track not everybody knows about. It’s in Illinois, right on the border with...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September 11–13, with Stock Cars as this year’s featured category. Road America’s long straights and fast sweeping turns make it an ideal place for the ground-pounding stockers to stretch their legs....
There is a man who is not only unknown to the general public but also to much of the racing...
Of all the race tracks that I have driven and raced on in North America, Road America is up there...
A 30-year reunion of the participants and fans of what is believed to be the only “Dead Heat” in Road America history is planned for the 2009 June Sprints weekend at the historic Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, track. In 1979, at the end of what could be called a decade of...
Turn 7 at the newly opened New Jersey Motorsports Park Lightning course is as pivotal as it is exciting. It...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin September 19-20, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Ford’s iconic GT40 will be the featured marque at this summer’s 10th annual Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman on...
Surjit Hermon, a 61-year-old Illinois radiologist and veteran vintage racer, was killed in an accident during a practice session for...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin July 19–20, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 16–18, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
