While we don’t necessarily want to become a facilitator for YouTube, even if the company does appear to be investing...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by the number of his countrymen you could count on the fingers of one hand, and when you add to the equation the fact that he was also a successful world...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted country would have been the better for it. But Big Dan did achieve immortality as the first American to create an American F1 car. Wonderfully, he called it the Eagle,...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first to bear the title and we still have a French Grand Prix, therefore it must be the world’s oldest race, right? I disagree and nominate the Indianapolis 500. The 500...
This painting depicts Gilles Villeneuve wininng the 1979 USGP East at Watkins Glen. The victory, his third of the season,...
Pete Lyons 2006 already! Those mileposts are just whizzing by, aren’t they? I feel like I’m riding up Pikes Peak...
Wilbur Shaw Nanni Galli 2 Sportscar and F1 racer Nanni Galli is born in Bologna, Italy (1940). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi drives a Lotus 72 to his first F1 victory in the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York. Jochen Rindt posthumously wins the World Driving title (1970). Become...
Pete Lyons Occasionally here you may notice me express disdain for the twisted state modern Formula One has gotten itself...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with...
Did your heart rev up when you heard Dan Gurney was trying to resurrect his old Eagle F1 team? Dan told me about it during the recent U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis. He and two business partners had been trying for two years to get the funding in place and...
Rick Mears Howden Ganley 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run...
For the second year, the Historic Grand Prix (HGP) organization took to the track as a support event for the...
Wilbur Shaw Denny Hulme 1 Jim Clark wins his third straight USGP at Watkins Glen, this time driving a Lotus-Ford (1967). 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Quick on the heels of its recent announcement to bring 3-liter Formula One cars to Road America in 2002, the...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives...
Jim Clark Robert Benoist 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer and Shadow. Follmer brought his Shadow in sixth place in the South African Grand Prix at Kylami (1973). 3 Indy car racer Mike Mosley dies in a road accident (1984). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Over 70,000 rabid F1 fans came to their feet as nearly 40 historic Formula One cars built between 1960 and...
John Surtees Barney Oldfield 1 Jim Clark wins his third straight USGP at Watkins Glen, New York, this time driving...
Ronnie Bucknum Jim Clark 2 Mike Hailwood is born (1940). 3 Mario Andretti becomes the first American to win a US Grand Prix when he drives his Lotus to victory in the USGP-West in Long Beach, California. First win for the Lotus 78 (1977). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
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