Peter Collins Jacques Lafitte Photo: Mike Jiggle 5 Grand Prix and Le Mans winner Louis Rosier is born in Chapdes-Beaufort,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete born of his passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
I’ve had a dream, one of the rare ones I remember clearly and can’t stop thinking about. That must mean...
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 18–19, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Portland Int’l Raceway, Portland, Oregon July 10–12, 2009 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...
Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, Ste. Jovite, Quebec, Canada July 10–12, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
The Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin July 10–11, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Brands Hatch, Kent, U.K. July 4–5, 2009 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 partner...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA August 14-16, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
November 2009 Quixx Plexiglas & Acrylic Scratch Remover As any racer knows, scratches are an inevitable part of racing. In...
While we don’t necessarily want to become a facilitator for YouTube, even if the company does appear to be investing in the sport with its support of the new USF1 team, it’s hard to resist pointing out that a nice trilogy of clips from the 1957 running of the 12...
With 2009 marking the 87th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, it is the second oldest motor race...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. The full schedule of events, listed below, includes six meetings, but expectations are that the two McLaren-honoring events and the yet-to-be-confirmed Australian Grand Prix support show will draw...
Australian racing legend Frank Gardner died on August 29 after a long illness. He was 78. Gardner was not only...
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the...
Perhaps best known from his time as Competitions Manager of the British Motor Corporation, Marcus Chambers died in early August just short of his 99th birthday. With a father an admiral in the Royal Navy, Chambers’s early life was influenced by time living in Australia, Canada, and France, as well...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July...
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in 1949 and has taken place every year since. “This was surely one of the biggest gatherings of Bentleys of all ages you could ever hope to see—and so many of...
With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn circuit on public roads, up the hill from the village, in Dix Township—the second year for that course. People would later call it “the course on the hill.” It was...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The Great Man said he would not ask Peter to give up his chance of winning the year’s Formula One World Championship in favor of Fangio, but he wanted to know...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
I’ve driven many types of cars, Indycars, NASCAR, Sprint Cars, the whole bit; I started at the old Devil’s Bowl...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for creating Cobras and Shelby Mustangs. But perhaps fewer know that he ventured into car creation somewhat before. During the fifties, Shelby, Jim Hall, and Jim’s brother, Richard, had a dealership...
