By the early 1960s, Ford had carved a very specific niche for itself in the UK. Having built low cost,...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a valiant battle with brain cancer. Tony began racing in 1963 with a Volvo 544 sedan, and in 1965 won the SCCA’s Northeast Division B Sedan championship with the same car....
Editor Casey Annis moderates a panel discussion on the heyday of Formula 5000 with legends like series champions Brian Redman...
• The Cooper Car Club USA has announced the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Cooper Cars with back-to-back events...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and served as the immediate precursor to the Can-Am Series, will take place at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum at Pomona, California, Saturday, April 9, with cocktail service beginning at 5...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
A panel discussion featuring some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will take place in the paddock at...
Some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will gather for a panel discussion in the paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca during next month’s Rolex Monterey Motorpsorts Reunion. The panel lineup currently includes Brian Redman, Vern Schuppan, Tony Adamowicz, John Morton, Howden Ganley and Shadow team owner Don...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
• Tim Wardrop, who was Arie Luyendyk’s race engineer when the Dutchman set the all-time one- and four-lap speed records...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s Riverside international Automotive Museum on the last weekend of March. As the event’s featured guest, Unser sat down for the traditional post-banquet interview with Ed Justice Jr., and happily told...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again king of Formula 5000, having claimed victory in three of the five F5000 Drivers Association revival races to secure the 2011 title. Driving the same 1969 Eagle Mark 5-Chevy he...
Its svelte silhouette has been a fixture of our sport for—take a breath—practically half a century. Incredibly, the lines and...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of...
Still racers, after all these years. That’s what I was thinking as one veteran driver after another mounted the stage and regaled us with stories of his Trans-Am days. Pete Lyons The Trans-Am: It started way back in the mid-‘60s, which means these guys must be, gosh, mumble-mumble years old...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
The 1965 Le Mans-winning NART Ferrari 250LM driven by Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory and currently owned by the Indianapolis...
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...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
The North American Racing Team: An evocative name that is steeped in history and encompasses one man’s ambitions, his passion, the glory and the despair of motor racing over a period of nearly 40 years. Masten Gregory Dan Gurney Milt Minter John Surtees Paul Newman Graham Hill Pedro Rodriguez Phil...
John Fitch Tony Adamowicz 2 Tony Adamowicz, racer and founding vice president of the Polish Racing Drivers Association, is born...
Harry Miller Tony Adamowicz 1 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson win the Mille Miglia in just over 10 hours, a...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come true for a kid from Port Henry, New York. Our recent success at the Daytona 24-Hours in the Ferrari 312P NART proved the car had the strength and integrity required...
His nickname has always been “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name is Adamowicz, but in larger part because...
