Pat Flaherty A.J. Foyt John Watson Zora Arkus-Duntov 1 Zora Arkus-Duntov, who will go on to become the “Father of...
For the enthusiast, it is a good thing to be able to say that your car is based on a...
The Corvette SR2 competition car was created by the design team of GM styling boss Harley Earl, and made for Earl’s son to race. It had 230 horsepower, and was raced through 1956 and 1957 with some sucess. Only three SR2s were ever made, and Corvette guru Zora Arkus-Duntov took his...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
1953 Chevrolet Corvette Motorama Show Car. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Corvette, it is appropriate to reflect on some of the technologies that have been introduced through the “halo” Corvette. Of course, the introduction of a new technology to the mass market can be a sensitive issue and...
Photo: Hal Crocker In the world of motor sports, the wind genie escaped from his bottle during the mid-1960s, and...
Duntov at the wheel of the Chevrolet Experimental Research Vehicle, CERV 1, a single-seater that he designed and constructed as...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and Skip Barber were enshrined during a March 2 dinner in Las Vegas for their contributions to SCCA racing. Shelby, more widely known as winner of the 1959 Le Mans 24...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
Captive Readership Dear Editor, I must share a couple things with you. Due to firefighting injuries/wear and tear I had...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the age of 83. Greder first attended the 24 Hours in 1952 and rejoined the festivities each year as a spectator until racing there for the first time in 1967, when...
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as Mark Donohue’s is that there are so many tales to tell it becomes difficult to know, as Bob Seger says, “what to leave in, what to leave out.” Become a...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the...
