Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
Toyota-Eagle GTP MkIII I truly believe a good car does not have to do only with good performances, but also...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the sad passing of Dan Gurney so it has happened once more. Dan was part of that wave of American drivers from the ’50s sports car racing scene who all arrived...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
1953 Leson Simca Special Progress is not always a good thing. In the early 1950s, if you wanted to go racing in America you could build yourself a car or have one professionally constructed to your exact specifications. Sure, that meant some homebuilt, crude and dangerous machines were flying around...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
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Sydney Motorsport Park November 11-12, 2017 Colin Goldsmith (Austin-Healey 3000) followed by Louis Brittain (Lancia Zagato).Photo: Steve Oom Become a...
Silverstone, Northants, UK November 4-5, 2017 Celia Stevens raced her Warwick GT350 in the BWRDC Ladies Race.Photo: Pete Austin 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...
Willow Springs, Rosamond, CA September 16-17 , 2017 James Alder leads the pack in his 1952 Jaguar XK120.Photo: Rex McAfree...
March 2018 Second to None The European Formula 2 Story: From Ickx to Thackwell and from Rindt to Streiff By...
Fewer than 20 Renault AI 35/45 HP Runabouts were produced, and four of the five remaining 1907 racers — often called simply...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was to become a racing driver of considerable skill and an ingenious designer/constructor of a range of very competitive and innovative machinery that included sports and racing cars. Heinz Melkus Sadly,...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon,...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning the 2009 Formula One World Championship. But, like so many other kart stars of the last 30 years or so, Jenson Button did it, with a lot of team changes...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
Have you ever stopped to add up all of the different driver nationalities in motor racing and perhaps spotted a trend? It is an interesting study. As the world has shrunk travel-wise, so the mobility of younger people has opened up many an opportunity to them—which is by no means...
1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race...
February 2018 The Crystal Palace Trophy, Crystal Palace, June 11, 1962. At the start, it’s Roy Salvadori on pole in...
One of the most intriguing post-war American automotive tales has largely been forgotten. It was a car story that began in 1957 and involved publishing royalty, a design genius and grass-roots guys with imagination, ambition, and skill. But where are the cars that they built? John Bond was the publisher...
