Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
March 2009 Cro-Sal Man Photo: Pete Lyons / www.petelyons.com Dear Editor, Wotta blast! Pictures of “my” car! I bought that wonderful McKee Cro-Sal Armco twin-turbo alloy Olds 4-wd confection in the mid-’70s for about $10k. Wish I’d sprung another couple grand for the aluminum trailer because the car was huge....
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled...
The revival of one of history’s most popular production car-based series, the fabled SCCA Trans-Am, is in the works for...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met.” High on my own list of such characters is my close friend, Andy Porterfield. Andy is amazing for a number of reasons. Among other accomplishments, Andy has...
The 46th birthday of Formula Vee will be celebrated at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this April 4–5, in a vintage...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends, when they discovered an out-of-service subway car parked on a rail siding. Exhibiting his characteristic curiosity, young Pomeroy climbed on top of it to investigate the purpose of the car’s...
Nearly 12 years ago, Parker Johnstone walked away from a strong career as a professional Indy car driver with 2...
My first exposure to Formula Ford came as a lot of us began hearing about how neat it was in...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes to mind as well as Carroll Shelby’s at the last. In Southern California, one of the best-loved venues was Palm Springs. It had everything: a famous resort, wonderful winter weather,...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series....
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Racing has lost a great friend with the passing of Academy Award–winning actor Paul Newman. Brought into the sport by his acting career, Newman discovered his attraction for it while making the motion picture Winning, in 1968, where he played all-rounder Frank Capua. The fire may have been lit during...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
On August 28, we lost our great and good champion, Phil Hill. The entire world of motor sports is saddened....
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with USAC, which had taken over Indy car racing from the AAA. USAC’s Duane Carter was interested because he wanted Indy car races in Italy (Monza), Germany (Avus), and France (Monthlery)....
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
Just as we were going to press last month, we learned of the …..tragic death of historic racer Dino Crescentini, at Mosport (VR, News Brief, Aug. ’08). While a fatality at a historic race is always a shock, this one was even more disorienting, as it turns out there have...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG), or any other West Coast vintage sports car racing events, then you no doubt have seen a familiar sight: a bright-red Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (TR), number 9, circulating quickly...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what...
On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early as 1953, the Corvette was also one of the United States’ leading production-based racecars competing in not only domestic SCCA and later IMSA races, but also international FIA endurance events...
