LYNX 1963 LOW-DRAG E-TYPE In the Indian summer of 1961, Wolfgang von Trips was killed at Monza in the Ferrari Sharknose, and an American college…...
Month: December 2004
In 1955 Denis Jenkinson wrote of the EMW sports racers: “By comparison, the well-known 300 SLR Mercedes-Benz sports cars have a poor air-flow over the…...
Lotus—The Early Years An in-depth look at the formative years of Lotus from 1951-1954. Peter Ross examines the men and cars that took Lotus from…...
Out of all the competitors who raced at that very first 1948 road race at Watkins Glen, there are perhaps only five living: Bill Milliken,…...
It was really very gratifying to have received so much positive feedback on the “Absent Friends” feature that we ran in the September ’04 issue…
This Audi TT is a car capable of being driven on or pretty close to the limit. It’s a well-balanced car, turbo-charged with four-wheel drive,…...
Jenks used to write pieces titled, “Pity the Poor Historian”, where he would list, say, the conflicting reasons for a particular car’s retirement from a…...
This painting depicts the 2nd placed 917K at Le Mans 1971 during refuelling and changeover. Richard Attwood and Herbert Muller are the drivers, Attwood having…
2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 3 Wendell Scott, the…...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was cosanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a…...
Shanghai’s gaudy new, $300-million supercircuit, home of the first-ever Grand Prix in China, has a truly distinctive first turn complex. It coils up tightly one…...