Little Stinger
1968 Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR Variations on a theme – that’s the one-liner which always comes to mind when encountering an Abarth creation, especially one of… Read More...
Monthly Archives: July, 2003
The Mount — Australia’s Venerable Bathurst
If you are even just slightly interested in Australian motor racing there are two Sundays of the year that are always marked in your diary.… Read More...
Vic Edelbrock
In the late 1930s, Vic Edelbrock Senior started up his automotive business in a small way, in a small garage on Los Angeles’ 3rd and… Read More...
History Repeats Itself?
At 30,000 feet, questions begin to crystallize like ice on the wing… Will the circulation ever return to my hopelessly cramped legs? Is that really…
Testing, Testing!
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important leadership positions in the competition,… Read More...
Size
In my last column, I mentioned Justin Wilson. I have never met the guy nor have I invested in his future, it’s just that he… Read More...
Lancia D24
The Lancia D24 was the dominant sports racing car of the mid-1950s and was driven by some of the greatest drivers in the history of…
July in Racing History
1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan (1947). 2 Achille Varzi dies in a wreck while… Read More...
Formula Ford
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… Read More...
Still the Champ
Anyone who saw the terrifying tape of Mario Andretti’s 200-mph “blowover” at Indianapolis on April 23rd will easily visualize the same guy booting Duncan Dayton’s… Read More...
VARA, High Desert Challenge
Willow Springs, CA April 5-6, 2003 Read More...