1955 Crowfoot Holden Special The author opens up the wailing Crowfoot Special onto Wakefield Park’s front straight. Photo: Casey Annis...
Mario Andretti at speed in his Ferrari 312B with flat-12 engine. Andretti was the race favorite having won the opening...
Is there anything Phil Remington hasn’t done over the course of his 60 years in motor sport? In children’s literature there are the Inspector Gadget books in which an intrepid Inspector Gadget comes up with a series of ingenious devices to thwart his foes. Perhaps the author of that series...
Due to the peccadilloes and vagaries of the publishing world, I sit here writing this column in the beginning of...
Ronnie Peterson Biography Ronnie Peterson was born on 1944 in Örebro, Sweden, the son of an avid racer of moderate accomplishments....
Following the sudden and tragic death of my father Reg, my move into team management was both swift and unexpected. I took over the Reg Parnell Racing team in 1964 and later became manager of the Owen Racing Organisation. In those roles, I had the pleasure in dealing with some...
Automobile racing started soon after the appearance of autos themselves. Those first events, on public highways and byways, went from...
John Michael Hawthorn, the “Farnham Flyer” to his countrymen and “Le Papillon” to the French (because of his habit of...
The British Grand Prix; Silverstone, July 10, 1965. Tire smoke fills the air as the field moves off with Jackie...
Mid-Ohio is a very rhythmic, undulating and momentum rewarding circuit that requires countless laps to understand the subtleties of the track and where to extract its speed. There are two corners that stand out as “critical” when trying to translate your effort behind the wheel into speed on the time...
Antonio Ascari Pedro Rodriguez 2 Camille Jenatzy, driving a Mercedes 60 HP, wins the Gordon Bennett race. He covers the...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
I am unsettled. I know it. But I don’t know why. Is it this grass, groomed to unnatural golf course perfection? The blazing Florida sun making metalwork look overpolished? The unreal quiet? What is giving me this creepy Star Wars feeling of “a disturbance in the Force?” Become a Member...
Hallet Raceway, OK March 30–April 2, 2006 Tim Suddard and Joe Hovey dice around Hallett in a TR-3 and a...
Castle Combe, England April 17, 2006 Hackett and Sutherland’s Jaguar XK120 en route to 2nd in the Jack Sears Trophy race.Photo: Peter Collins 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...
Daytona Beach, FL April 14–15, 2006 The 1988 Camaro of Richard Bryan enters Turn 3.Photo: Chuck Andersen Become a Member...
Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, AL April 7–9, 2006 The 1969 Camaro Z28 of Dan Pinsonneault is chased by the 1995 Porsche 993RSR of Charles Espenlaub.Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid...
July 2006 Speed, Frozen in Time : Vintage Racecar Images By Jamie Hankin Readers of Vintage Raecar will be familiar...
This month’s featured Web site is the official site of the U.S. Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With over 4,000 members...
Regularity race specialist Giuliano Cané won the Mille Miglia for a record ninth time on May 13th, driving a BMW 323 MM. Navigated by his wife Lucia, the Bologna industrialist won the 24th re-run of the glorious old race with 14,849 points after dropping down as far as 35th place...
Australia is blessed with a wide range of historic motorsport from circuit racing to “around the houses” speed events. Speed...
The Historic Sports Car Club of Great Britain held its season-opening championship races at a revamped Donington Park circuit at...
In 1936, the first MG “T type” was produced in England. It started with the MG-TA, and then progressed through the TB, TC, TD, and ended in 1955 with the TF, thus making the T-series the most distinctive line of MGs, which are recognized world wide today. Much of that production was exported to North America,...
Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, was inducted into the International...
Well-known historic Super Vee driver and Monoposto Racing director Domenick J. Billera died on Friday, April 21, 2006 at his...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTAm There is a slight inclination here to refer you to Tony Adriaensen’s remarkable tome Alleggerita and let myself off a complex historical hook. Explaining the evolution of Alfa Romeo’s competition models is challenging at best and maddening most of the time. After about 25 years working...
