Eastern Creek Raceway, Eastern Creek, NSW, Australia November 26–28, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
May 2011 Collage – Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix Album Sir Jackie Stewart The wives and girlfriends of racing drivers of the 1960s and 1970s, in most cases, were enthusiastic members of the team. They played an active part in the pit and paddock at race meetings, usually seen sitting on...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
Today, a great racecar has to be very powerful, have a great deal of downforce to give grip, and be very controllable—irrespective of the formula. Of course, the driver has to feel comfortable in the cockpit, especially with more longer distance races. An uncomfortable car can distract the driver from...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus...
April 2011 During the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Tom Pryce rounds Rascasse in his Shadow DN5, not long after the...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings and raspings of the commonplace European engines. Beware, that unearthly cry proclaimed. We are coming. Pete Lyons It was at Watkins Glen in 1964, the next to last year of...
CONGRATULATIONS! At this past year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival, Vintage Racecar teamed up with Nikon and Lime Rock Park to...
April 2011 Jochen Rindt – Uncrowned Champion By David Tremayne Books about 1970’s posthumous World Champion Jochen Rindt are few...
The first thing to say about www.autoracinghistory.com is that this is a text-heavy site where the word works more powerfully than the image, but whether that detracts from or embellishes the site will be entirely up to you, whose eye will do the beholding. That said, let us tell you...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too...
My early racing career started in single-seaters in New Zealand beginning first with Formula Atlantic, then Formula Three, and then...
Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains above trendy Malibu, California, lies an artifact from the history of automobile racing in Southern California, Paramount Ranch. During the mid-1950s, the venue, which served as the setting for a number of western movies when owned by Paramount Studios, provided an abundance of excitement...
The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half...
Sebring Int’l Raceway, Sebring, FL December 3–5, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
London to Brighton, UK November 7, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Sandown Int’l Motor Raceway, Melbourne, Victoria/Australia November 6–7, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Willow Springs International Raceway, Rosamond, CA November 6–7, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts...
Coronado Island, San Diego, CA October 24–26, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Circuit de Ledenon, Ledenon Gard/France October 23–24, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this book documents the trio of sports car races held in Cuba during the years surrounding the country’s conversion to communism as Fidel Castro’s revolution toppled the dictator Fulgencio Battista. Author...
