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2011 Jaguar XKR Coupe & Convertible In this the 50th year of the hallowed E-Type, it seemed only too fitting to take a...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda...
A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to write more history at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Dan Gurney, who teamed with A.J. Foyt to win Le Mans for Ford in 1967, and whose Eagle racing cars...
The documentary film Senna, which won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is set...
Sir Stirling Moss, 81, came in from practice for the Le Mans Legends race on June 8, and said, “That...
As one of only 16 ever produced, the 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” that headlines Mecum Auctions’ offerings during this year’s Monterey Classic Car Week, August 10-17, is among the rarest of the rare. This particular example (chassis 2459) made its initial competition outing at the 12 Hours of Sebring...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E....
Some 45 years after making headlines at the Monte Carlo Rallye, the iconic Mini name is back on the World...
The Jaguar marque celebrates two anniversaries in 2011. The E-Type is 50 years old, while 60 years have passed since the C-Type brought Jaguar its first win at Le Mans. Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, set in the delightful English countryside, is the oldest motorsport venue in the world still in current...
I remember my first encounter with John Winter. I called him John, “My name’s Spike! Call me Spike,” he said....
The organizers very wisely had the foresight to provide off-track entertainment, the most popular of which were 16 sessions of...
Though the historic racing experts felt it was a bit of a risk to stage a historic festival at the newly refurbished Donington Park circuit, sponsors EFG International and organizers HSCC seemed to have been very happy at the end of a sunny and busy Mayday Bank Holiday weekend. Though...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike...
The BRM Years Tony Southgate Photo: Pete Austin Last November we began an ongoing series of interviews with Tony Southgate, the English designer whose lengthy résumé includes stints with some of the most prominent teams in the sport across a variety of disciplines. In this second installment, Mike Jiggle talks with...
In March, The Legends of Motorsports group —who kicked off their sophomore year at Barber Motorsports Park this May—sent out...
The story of the Marzotto brothers and their brief but mercurial motor racing careers was mostly about Giannino winning the...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to do so. I had to wait until I was eighteen and a half years old, mainly because my family was not involved in the motorcycle trade or racing. When I...
I think Ron Dennis has made a great contribution to motor racing. I used to dream of driving for him...
Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first...
Among this year’s anniversaries is that of the Mini Cooper. John Cooper and Alec Issigonis became pals while competing in British hillclimbs in the immediate postwar era. Issigonis had resurrected his Austin-powered Lightweight Special, a single-seater with a monocoque and rubber suspension, while Cooper was developing his 500-cc cars. Issigonis...
In the 1950s, one means of gaining publicity for car factories was to try and beat a category record. Pegaso,...
A quartet of Minis leads the field away from the start of the touring car scratch race for the H.M.V....
Bill Devin was a friend of mine. Even in his eighties he was incredibly sharp, had nearly flawless recall and was good for at least six hours of automotive tale-telling at a moment’s notice. His career manufacturing fiberglass sports cars and bodies ran longer than anyone in history (1954–2000) and...
Hidden Kurtis Dear Editor, Just finished your terrific article on the Curtis Indycar. I am attaching a photo of two...
Rodger Ward Louis Chiron 1 Louis Chiron leads an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3 finish in the French Grand Prix at Montlhéry...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
