In 1954, Jaguar introduced the D Type, a replacement for the successful C Type which had won Le Mans in...
The year was 1970 and these were the Targa Florio/Nürburgring 908/3’s. These cars were very squat and square, except for...
Older racing Porsches from the ’50s-’70s are one of my favorite cars to paint. This painting shows the great Jean Behra in the 718 RSK that he shared with Hermann coming in 3rd overall in the 1958 24-Hours of Le Mans, winning the 2-liter class with a 1600-cc motor. Their...
I photographed this car during the 1997 Vintage Festival at Lime Rock Park. When my eyes came upon the car...
When Lancia retired from racing in 1955, the team of Jano-designed D50s were handed over to Ferrari and formed the basis of the Scuderia’s F1 effort for the 1956 season. Drivers included team leader Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Musso and Peter Collins. Collins is depicted driving in the Belgian Grand...
I had a mission at one point to try and paint all the world champions (I have since re-evaluated my...
One of the most beautiful front-engined Grand Prix cars ever built, the Maserati 250F carried Juan Manuel Fangio to his 5th, and final, World Championship in 1957. Seen here, the car is depicted at Aintree, England, during the 1957 European Grand Prix, with Fangio holding the car in a classic...
Tazio Nuvolari was truly a pure racer. Although he initially raced motorcycles, he eventually migrated over to four-wheeled machinery. Nuvolari...
Dr. Guiseppe Farina—we also know him as “Nino,” “Il Dottore,” “The Great Farina” and countless unmentionable names used by competitors...
The Lola T70 certainly had a rich and storied racing career. This ex-Foyt T70 is seen here doing battle during the opening laps of the 1966 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside against some rather good company – no less than 17 Lola T70’s took the green flag including,...
Seen during morning practice at the Gibraltar GP of 1963, this unidentified, but high-spirited driver was going like Jack-the-Bear: literally...
My first trip to Westwood (remember Westwood?) in B.C. with my freshly reconstructed Lotus Eleven was a heady time – my first racecar, and run on a beautiful mountain course – and I proudly set up this still life on Sunday evening – my new gloves and helmet were looking...
Alfa Romeo may have produced an ungainly looking, graceless racing car, but none come to mind…I’m a pushover for Alfas...
Two more intelligent partners would be hard to imagine – Roger Penske and Mark Donohue. Obsessive in their search for...
Another man I’d like to know more about – born in Paris of wealthy American racing parents – “Arree” was a character in an era of characters. He funded (or under-funded) his own entries in the early ’50s, drove at Indianapolis, later drove for Ferrari, Vanwall and BRM – running...
For all the effort, expense and heartache generated by the committee at BRM, it fell to the clear, single-minded vision...
Younger brother of Pedro, the fiery Mexican was his country’s motorcycle champion at age 15, graduated to sports cars at...
A wonderfuly “human” being, Shaw pursued auto, powerboat and airplane racing for 35 years. He won Indy three times; convinced Tony Hulman to rebuild The Speedway after WWII; was president of The Speedway at the time of his death in 1954; was idolized by the kids he found time to...
Or was it the other way around? Small matter. Rufus Parnell “Parnelli” Jones was not what you wanted in your...
Like many of his compatriots of the pre-corporate days of racing, Ireland lived and raced for the same reason –...
It’s probably to the good that Innes Ireland, Duncan Hamilton and Augie Pabst were never at a party together – the world would doubtless be configured differently if they had been – a matter of critical mass. I never met Ireland or Hamilton, but I’ve thought for some time that...
JO “SEPPI” SIFFERT Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, and of limited financial means, the lean, friendly, almost frail-looking Siffert followed the footsteps of many driving greats by beginning his career racing motorcycles. He borrowed leathers and, relying on mechanical skills and nerve to become successful, won the Swiss 350 cc Championship...
The 1954 Carrera Panamericana developed immediately into a fight between two Ferraris: the year-old 375MM of Phil Hill and Richie...
In 1966 Ford made good on the early promise of the GT40, winning both LeMans and the Constructor’s Championship for...
“LIQUID” is the word coming most readily to mind; SENSUOUS being the next. The really exquisite fiberglass (!) body was by Franco Scaglione of Turin and appeared in various differing versions of the same shape. Evolved from the successful Type 33/2 Sport Prototypes, the Stradale (or ‘Street’) was developed and...
