December 2004 Speed in Sweden—A Century of Swedish Motorsport By Björn Tiedemann, et al. While it is easy to overlook...
With more than 60 chapters across the U.S. and Canada, Jaguar Clubs of North America is undoubtedly one of the...
After a 15-year hiatus, organizers have recently announced a four-race Healey Challenge series will take pace in 2005, pitting American Austin Healeys against a team from Australia. Open to any car—common, specials, limited production, small bore, big bore, etc.—carrying the Healey name, the AUHC will comprise races at: Road America...
Australian racer Warwick Brown has had a racing career marked by extreme highs and lows. His career highlights are marked...
Tazio Nuvolari Whitney Straight 5 Roy Thomas, designer of Titan formula racers, dies of complications from lung cancer (2001). 6...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
November 2004 Indy Cars of the 1940s Introduction by Karl Ludvigsen The 1940s are the under-reported years of motor racing,...
Though often overlooked by many historians, the history of Australian road racing is rich with a long and varied selection...
Clever people, the organisers of the Le Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans. The annual 24-hour race at Le Mans has been with us since 1923, when the Chenard et Walcker “Sport” of Andre Lagache and Rene Leonard completed 2,209 kilometers at an average speed of 92.06kph over the 24-hour period. Of...
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From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
Australia June 19–20, 2004 As usual the 1967 Matich SR3 of Keith Berryman looked immaculate.Photo: Steve Oom Become a Member...
October 2004 The Art of the National Automobile—The Thomas Mittler Collection By Art Eastman Throughout the summer of 2004, five...
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by the tidy and powerful Coventry Climax 1100 cc engine. This new car, dubbed the “Eleven”, featured a 70 lb tubular spaceframe reinforced with stressed aluminum panels and slippery Costin-designed aluminum...
Can you hear that creaking sound? That’s the sound of me opening Pandora’s Box once again. At the risk of...
I first became interested in Formula One when my husband took me to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1982—the race...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a Voiturette Grand Prix won by Pietro Bordino in a Fiat 804-403 (1922). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
September 2004 Lotus Seven & The Independents By Dennis Ortenburger In 1957, Colin Chapman introduced the Lotus Seven and, in...
Jackie Oliver Nigel Mansell 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a crash during practice for...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
August 2004 Champions Forever—The Formula One Drivers This 2002 DVD was originally titled the more lurid “Quick and the Dead” when it was first released in the 1970s, and it is truly a ’70s piece of motor racing nostalgia, with a considerable helping of bad taste. Stacy Keach, in typically...
As one of the most recognized names in motorsport, the blood red cars of Ferrari are perhaps one of the...
Australian motorsport enthusiasts were saddened to hear of the death of 1949 Australian Grand Prix winner John Crouch on May...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that very nearly cost him his life, is about to go out and win his first race, only to discover his car is missing! With his racecar missing, Gurney confronts his...
This large painting study was inspired by my first visit to Lime Rock Park 17 years ago. I couldn’t believe...
Richard Petty Antonio Ascari 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for Team Penske’s first...
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 driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the...
