Pedro Rodriguez A.J. Foyt 1 FIA declares there can be sponsorship on cars participating in racing they sanction, provided the...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
January 2004 Race Legends of the Fabulous Fifties By Art Evans For many racers and fans the 1950s harbor a very special place in their hearts, if for no other reason than this was one of the most active, dynamic periods in American road racing. Road racing was accessible to...
Australia’s Phillip Island Classic, to be held Feb. 28-Mar. 1, looks to be even bigger and better after a successful...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with...
December 2003 Lotus 72—Formula One Icon By Michael Oliver In the current era of Formula One, today’s frontrunners will be...
From 1954–1967, Wilmot Hills Raceway, in Wilmot, Wisconsin, played host to a wide variety of road races. Built by the Chicago region of the SCCA just north of the IllinoisWisconsin border, the 1-mile circuit at Wilmot Hills was one of the first purpose-built race circuits in the Mid-west. The circuit...
Kiwi racing star Graham McRae, who competed in F1, F5000 and the Indianapolis 500, was hospitalized on September 2, after...
In the world of racing, automotive brands, more often than not, become flag bearers of national pride and heritage. In...
Thirty years ago one of the headline stories on television news was David Purley desperately trying to save the life of Roger Williamson, whose car had flipped at Zandvoort and had caught fire. The marshals were confused, but Purley stopped his car and wrestled a fire extinguisher from a marshal...
The Jaguar XKD-Type is perhaps one of my favorite auto designs ever. Introduced in 1954 as a replacement to the...
Derek Bell Gaston Chevrolet 2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These 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 racing...
November 2003 Alfa Romeo TZ—The Cars, the Race Results By Philippe Olczyk It came as something of a surprise to find...
Like so many great racing drivers over the ages, Swede Savage was a talented, up-and-coming racing driver who was snatched...
Over the course of his life, Frank Gardner has been a boxer, a surfer and a motorcycle mechanic before moving on to motor racing in Australia, England and eventually, throughout the world. Our Patrick Quinn managed to catch up with Frank at his Australian driver-training facility and found him to...
Mario Andretti started the 1978 Formula One season in the Colin Chapman–designed Lotus 78. After winning the season opener in Argentina from the pole position, Mario switched to the new Lotus 79. He went on to win the Belgian, Spanish, French, German and Dutch Grands Prix to take the World...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
October 2003 Daytona 24 Hours By J.J. O’Malley In the world of professional sports car racing, only two events have universal name recognition—even among the most casual of fans—the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona. While countless books have been written about Le Mans over...
Recently FIA president Max Mosley suggested that the FIA might revive the F2 category as a way of stimulating competition...
Al Holbert Clay Regazzoni 3 Brian Redman wins the F5000 race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, in a Lola T330. Jody Scheckter...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body,...
Oran Park, Australia The 5.3-liter Chevy Nova SS of Ross Muller leads the way from the 3.7 slant-six Chrysler Valiant...
September 2003 Jean-Pierre Wimille by Jean-Michel Paris & William D. Mearns This has been one of those long, awaited books...
Few would argue with the fact that Scottish racing great Jim Clark ranks as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of the post-war era. His successes in everything from a Grand Prix Lotus to a Ford Galaxie have made him a household name in Britain, in the same way...
